Mari Jungstedt (born 31 October 1962 in Stockholm) is a Swedish journalist and crime fiction author.
Jungstedt worked as a reporter on Swedish national public radio and television, and was an occasional presenter on TV4's daily talk show Förkväll.
Her first five novels are set on the island of Gotland and feature Detective Superintendent Anders Knutas and the journalist Johan Berg. Two of her novels were filmed for Swedish TV, and her work has been translated into English by Tiina Nunnally. In 2012, her book The Dead of Summer was released in America by the publishing house Stockholm Text.
Mari Jungstedt lives in Stockholm. Her husband comes from Visby, Gotland, and they spend their summers on Gotland.
En bleg aprilsol kryber langsomt over det gamle stenbrud i Bunge på det nordlige Gotland, da liget af ejendomsmægleren Sanna Widding bliver fundet. Få kilometer derfra ligger en smuk gamle herregård, som hun havde til opgave at sælge. Men salget af ejendommen vækker stærke følelser og gamle, dybe hemmeligheder til live i familien.
Politiinspektør Anders Knutas er tilbage efter sin sygemelding og kastes direkte ind i mordefterforskningen. Men Anders og kollegaen Karin Jacobsson indser hurtigt, at de ikke kan standse tiden og løse sagen, før det næste offer dør.
Den du elsker er 12. kriminalroman i serien om Anders Knutas og kollegaen Karin Jacobsson fra Visby politi.