Anna Maria Angelika Jansson (born 13 February 1958) is a Swedish crime writer and nurse from Visby, Gotland. She started her career as a surgeon nurse, but soon went over to the lung clinic due to her frequent fainting from seeing blood.
Jansson began writing novels in 1997 after her family bought a computer. At this time she had worked as a nurse for twenty years, and although she still enjoyed her occupation, she felt it was time to try something new. Jansson commented: "In school I hated writing essays, but then we got a computer at home, and suddenly I discovered that I actually felt happy as I was writing." A contributing factor to Jansson's decision to pursue her career as an author was her patients; she often met patients that were about to die and she was told that they regretted the fact that they had not spent much time in life doing what they really wanted.
The inspiration for Jansson's novels, which deal with crimes, came from the patients she met in her job as a nurse. Jansson's first crime novel to be published was Stum sitter guden in 2000. She had written two novels prior to this one, but failed to find a publisher for them. Jansson did not give up on her career as a nurse, and continued to work part-time at the Örebro Hospital while writing in her free time. Since 2000, she has published at least one novel each year. Her latest ones have sold over 100,000 copies each. In addition to this, Jansson has written a number of children's books.
Jansson's crime novels take place in Gotland and the main character in all of them is criminal inspector Maria Wern. Her 2006 novel Främmande fågel was nominated for a Glass Key award in 2007, and was adapted into a television show by TV4 in 2008.
Despite her now successful career as a writer, Jansson still works part-time as a nurse at Örebro Hospital's lung clinic. She has three children and lives in Vintrosa outside of Örebro.
Bibliography
Translated Crime novels 2013 – Strange Bird 2014 – Killer's Island
Audiobooks in English
01-24-25 - The Speechless God - audiobook 04-04-25 - All the Tranquil Dead - audiobook 04-04-25 - May Death Sleep - audiobook 04-04-25 - The Silver Crown - audiobook 04-04-25 - Dreams from Snow - audiobook 04-04-25 - Black Butterfly - audiobook 04-04-25 - Strange Bird - audiobook 04-04-25 - Boy Missing - audiobook 04-04-25 - Not Even the Past - audiobook 04-04-25 - Not Until the Giver Is Dead - audiobook
Crime novels 2000 – Stum sitter guden (The Speechless God) 2001 – Alla de stillsamma döda (All the Tranquil Dead) 2002 – Må döden sova (May Death Sleep) 2003 – Silverkronan (The Silver Crown) 2003 – Dömd för mord 2004 – Drömmar ur snö (Dreams of Snow) 2005 – Svart fjäril (Black Butterfly) 2006 – Främmande fågel (Strange Bird) 2007 – I stormen ska du dö 2007 – Pojke försvunnen (Boy Missing) 2008 – Inte ens det förflutna (Not Even the Past) 2008 – Hantverkarsvett är dyrare än saffran 2009 – Först när givaren är död (Not Until the Giver Is Dead) 2010 – Drömmen förde dej vilse (Killer's Island) 2011 – Alkemins eviga eld (The Eternal Flame of Alchemy) 2012 – När Skönheten kom till Bro (When Beauty Came to Town) 2013 – Dans på glödande kol (A Dance on Glowing Embers) 2014 – Skymningens barfotabarn (Child of the Shadows) 2014 – Ödesgudinnan på Salong d'Amour 2015 – Alla kan se dig (Everyone Can See You) 2016 – Rädslans fångar (Prisoners of Fear) 2017 - Det du inte vet (What You Do Not Know) 2018 - Kvinnan på bänken (Woman on the Bench) 2019 - Mitt hjärta är ditt (My Heart Is Yours) 2020 - Dödslistan (The Death List) 2021 - Galgbergets väktare (The Watchmen of Gallows Hill) 2022 - Onda drömmar (Bad Dreams) 2023 - Dödens snabba vingar (Swift Wings of Death) 2024 - Till offer åt de okända (Victims of the Unknown) 2025 - Rädslans labyrint (Labyrinth of Fear)
Children's books Ditt och mitt, 2007 Ingen att vara med, 2007 Modigt Mia, 2007 Monster finns, 2007 Kojan, 2007 Mia frågar chans, 2007 Det brinner, 2007 En varulv, 2007
References
External links Official website