Liza Marklund

Liza Marklund is a Swedish journalist and one of Scandinavia's bestselling crime novelists, known for her long-running Annika Bengtzon series following a Stockholm crime reporter, before co-authoring The Postcard Killers with James Patterson, a thriller about a New York detective and a Swedish journalist hunting a pair of serial killers who leave taunting postcards at crime scenes across Europe. Marklund's background as an investigative journalist in Sweden informs both her solo Nordic noir fiction and her contribution to the Patterson collaboration. Her Annika Bengtzon novels, translated into numerous languages, helped establish Marklund as a major figure in the Scandinavian crime fiction wave that gained significant international readership in the 2000s and 2010s. The Postcard Killers paired her journalistic, socially grounded approach to crime writing with Patterson's high-velocity commercial thriller format, and the transatlantic setting allowed both authors to draw on their respective regional strengths. Marklund continues to write and publish extensively in Sweden and internationally, remaining one of the most recognized Scandinavian crime novelists working today.