Christoffer Carlsson was born in 1986 on the west coast of Sweden. He holds a PhD in criminology from the University of Stockholm and is one of Sweden’s leading crime experts. Carlsson is the youngest winner of the Best Swedish Crime Novel of the Year, voted by the Swedish Crime Writers’ Academy, and has won the prestigious Glass Key award for The Living and the Dead, given to the best Scandinavian crime novel of the year. He's also won the Best Swedish Crime Novel twice.

This is genre fiction with literary aspirations resembling a novel by Thomas Hardy or William Faulkner rewritten as Scandi crime. [...] Stylistically classy and psychologically rich

Christoffer Carlsson was born in 1986 on the west coast of Sweden. He holds a PhD in criminology from the University of Stockholm and is one of Sweden’s leading crime experts. Carlsson is the youngest winner of the Best Swedish Crime Novel of the Year, voted by the Swedish Crime Writers’ Academy, and has won the prestigious Glass Key award for The Living and the Dead, given to the best Scandinavian crime novel of the year. He's also won the Best Swedish Crime Novel twice.

This is genre fiction with literary aspirations resembling a novel by Thomas Hardy or William Faulkner rewritten as Scandi crime. [...] Stylistically classy and psychologically rich

Christoffer Carlsson was born in 1986 on the west coast of Sweden. He holds a PhD in criminology from the University of Stockholm and is one of Sweden’s leading crime experts. Carlsson is the youngest winner of the Best Swedish Crime Novel of the Year, voted by the Swedish Crime Writers’ Academy, and has won the prestigious Glass Key award for The Living and the Dead, given to the best Scandinavian crime novel of the year. He's also won the Best Swedish Crime Novel twice.

This is genre fiction with literary aspirations resembling a novel by Thomas Hardy or William Faulkner rewritten as Scandi crime. [...] Stylistically classy and psychologically rich