Karin Wahlberg

Mystery novels for pleasure, with a great deal of conscience

 

Karin Wahlberg’s mystery novels both amuse and inspire to making the world a better place. Karin Wahlberg, that works as a gynaecologist and obstetrician in Lund, writes books that are more like exciting literary works than traditional mysteries, and her style, influenced by the English one, has created rich stories with grounds for reflection. Her characters are portraits of real-life normal people who have found themselves on the brink and must act both for themselves and for their environment. The hospital setting is wonderfully detailed from the perspective of an insider.

 

Karin Wahlberg says this about her writing: “There is just one deadline, Death, and therefore there’s all the reason in the world to write about those things one finds are important.”

 

Police commissioner Claes Claesson and surgeon Veronika Lundborg are the main characters since the first book in the series, The Last Round. The books have been sold in enormous editions, a total of over one million copies just in Sweden for all the books in the series. Her success is due to the veracity of both characters and the stories the author weaves from her experience of the frightening side of real life. The books have topped the Swedish best-seller lists and won both silver and gold pocket book prizes.

 

Karin Wahlberg also writes children/youth novels. With much empathy and engagement, topics like sorrow, to miss someone and to discover who one is, are covered. Just like in her crime novels she brings up questions about right and wrong in an easy way without pointing fingers.

 

Author's website: www.karinwahlberg.se

 

Bibliography, fiction

• 2009 – The Death of Carpet Dealer Olsson (Matthandlare Olssons död), crime novel
• 2009 – Sigrid's Secret (Sigrids hemlighet), historical novel
• 2007 – The Comforter (Tröstaren ), crime novel
• 2006 – The Block  (Blocket), crime novel
• 2004 – The Girl Selling Flowers Door to Door (Flickan med majblommorna), crime novel
• 2003 – A Frozen Life (Ett fruset liv), crime novel
• 2002 – The Woman who Dropped By (Hon som tittade in), crime novel
• 2001 –The Last Round (Sista Jouren), crime novel

 

Bibliography, children/youth

• 2009 – Camilla and the Lie (Camilla och lögnen)

 

Rights for Karin Wahlberg’s books have been sold to Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, The Netherlands, Norway, Spain and Sweden.

 

Author photo: Sandra Qvist

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Video - Meet Karin Wahlberg (in Swedish)

(By Wahlström & Widstrand, Karin Wahlberg's publishing house in Sweden)