Emelie Schepp (born 5 September 1979) is a Swedish crime author. Her crime novels are centered around
Norrköping
Norrköping ( , ) is a city in the province of Östergötland in eastern Sweden and the seat of Norrköping Municipality, Östergötland County, about 160 km southwest of the national capital Stockholm, 40 km east of county seat Lin ...
and focus on the main figure Jana Berzelius, a public prosecutor.
Biography
Schepp was born in
Motala
Motala () is a Urban areas in Sweden, locality and the seat of Motala Municipality, Östergötland County, Sweden with a municipal population of 43,717 inhabitants in 2024. It is the third largest city of Östergötland, following Linköping and N ...
. In 2013, she made her debut with the crime novel ''Märkta för livet'' (English: ''Marked for Life'', trans. Rod Bradbury) which sold 40,000 copies in just six months. She then signed a book deal for three books with Wahlström & Widstrand in the fall of 2014, re-releasing her debut book the same year.
Her four Berzelius books have sold over a million copies worldwide. The rights of the series have been sold to thirty countries, and the books have been translated into Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Spanish and Turkish (January 2019).
An adaptation of ''Märkta för livet'' as ''
Jana: Marked for Life'' was broadcast in 2024.
Bibliography
* 2014 ''Märkta för livet'', Wahlström & Widstrand,
** 2016 in English: ''Marked for Life'', trans. Rod Bradbury, Mira (Canada),
* 2015 ''Vita Spår'', Wahlström & Widstrand,
** 2017 in English: ''Marked for Revenge'', trans. Suzanne Martin Cheadle, Mira (Canada),
* ''2016 Prio ett'', Wahlström & Widstrand,
** 2018 in English: ''Slowly We Die'', trans. Suzanne Martin Cheadle, Mira (Canada),
* 2017 ''Pappas pojke'', HarperCollins Nordic
* 2019 ''Broder Jakob'', HarperCollins Nordic
* 2020 ''Nio liv'', HarperCollins Nordic
* 2022 ''Björnen sover'', Norstedts
References
External links
Living people
1979 births
Swedish women writers
Swedish crime fiction writers
People from Motala
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