About the author

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.

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Da skønheden kom til bro

Visby middelalderuge er i fuld gang. I Sankt Clemens Kirkeruin indtager et hemmeligt teaterselskab scenen om natten. En dobbeltgrav fra 1100-tallet, hvor en ung kvinde og en ældre mand hviler sammen, er i centrum. Parret blev brutalt myrdet i deres søvn, og skuespillerne vækker udåden til live på ny. For at blive indviet til truppen må Malva på seksten år tilbringe en nat i graven og siden finde ud på egen hånd.   

Maria Wern er til personalefest og forelsker sig hovedkulds i en brandmand. Han spiller med i ruinen i rollen som Gregorius, en gråbrødre-munk, der har aflagt løfte om at leve i cølibat og fattigdom. Ved han mon noget om, hvad der er sket med Malva? Ingen har set pigen i en uge, og hendes far har meldt hende savnet. Samtidig findes en kvinde død på en strand. Der kan være sket hende en ulykke, men flere personer vinder ved hendes død.    

I Da skønheden kom til Bro sætter Maria Wern meget på spil for at løse gåden om Malva. Vil hun miste alt?
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Edition1
Printed pages288
Publish date14 Feb 2019
Published byPeople'sPress
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ISBN print9788772006741
ISBN epub9788770362283
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