In the Shadow of Power

About Viveca Sten

Since 2008 Swedish writer Viveca Sten has sold more than 4.5 million copies of her Sandhamn Murders series which includes Still Waters Closed Circles Guiltless Tonight Youre Dead In the Heat of the Moment In Harms Way and In the Shadow of Power. They have cemented her place as one of the countrys most popular authors whose crime novels continue to top bestseller charts. Set on the tiny Swedish island of Sandhamn the series has also been made into a Swedish-language TV miniseries seen by seventy million viewers around the world. Sten lives in Stockholm with her husband and three children yet she prefers spending her time on Sandhamn Island where she writes and vacations with her family. Follow her at www.vivecasten.com. Marlaine Delargy lives in Shropshire in the United Kingdom. She studied Swedish and German at the University of Wales Aberystwyth and taught German for almost twenty years. She has translated novels by many authors including Åsa Larsson Kristina Ohlsson Helene Tursten John Ajvide Lindqvist Therese Bohman Ninni Holmqvist and Johan Theorin with whom she won the Crime Writers Association International Dagger for The Darkest Room in 2010. Ms. Delargy also translated Guiltless Tonight Youre Dead In the Heat of the Moment In Harms Way and In the Shadow of Power in Viveca Stens Sandhamn Murders series.