Viveca Sten (née Bergstedt; 18 June 1959, in Stockholm) is a Swedish writer and lawyer. She has a law degree from Stockholm University and has an MBA from the Stockholm School of Economics. Previously, she worked at Scandinavian Airlines, has had a highly successful legal career as a lawyer and held the position as General Counsel at PostNord (the Swedish & Danish mail service), but left in 2011 to focus on her writing. Viveca lives with her family just north of Stockholm. Since 1917, Viveca´s family have spent all their summers at Sandhamn, a small settlement in the central-peripheral part of the Stockholm Archipelago where her crime fiction novels are set frequently. She is perhaps best known for the book series Sandhamn Murders.[1]
Selected works edit
Fiction edit
- 2008, I de lugnaste vatten (English translation: Still Waters, 2015 - Sandhamn Murders Book 1)
- 2009, I den innersta kretsen (English translation: Closed Circles, 2016 - Sandhamn Murders Book 2)
- 2010, I grunden utan skuld (English translation: Guiltless, 2017 - Sandhamn Murders Book 3)
- 2011, I natt är du död (English translation: Tonight You’re Dead, 2017 - Sandhamn Murders Book 4)
- 2012, Julbord i skärgården
- 2012, Ett gott nytt år
- 2012, I stundens hetta (English translation: In the Heat of the Moment, 2018 - Sandhamn Murders Book 5)
- 2013, I farans riktning (English translation: In Harm's Way, 2018 - Sandhamn Murders Book 6)
- 2014, I maktens skugga (English translation: In the Shadow of Power, 2019 - Sandhamn Murders Book 7)
- 2015, I sanningens namn (English translation: In the Name of Truth, 2020 - Sandhamn Murders Book 8)
- 2016, Djupgraven (English translation: The abyss)
- 2017, Iskalla ögonblick[2]
- 2018, I fel sällskap (English translation: In Bad Company, 2021 - Sandhamn Murders Book 9)
- 2019, I hemlighet begravd (English translation: Buried in Secret, 2022 - Sandhamn Murders Book 10)
Non-fiction edit
- Förhandla i affärer (Negotiating in Business)
- Outsourcing av IT-tjänster (Outsourcing IT Services)
- Internationella avtal – i teori och praktik (International Agreements—In Theory and Practice)
See also edit
- Morden i Sandhamn, Swedish television crime drama adapted from Sten's "Sandhamn Murders" series
- Crime fiction
References edit
- ^ "'Morden i Sandhamn'-författaren skriver fler böcker – får miljoner". Aftonbladet. 8 May 2017. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
- ^ "Iskalla ögonblick : tio skärgårdsberättelser – Viveca Sten – Bok | Akademibokhandeln". www.akademibokhandeln.se. Retrieved 12 October 2021.