Bodil Mårtensson is a Swedish author of crime (police) novels

Mystery fiction

Mystery fiction is a loosely-defined term.1.It is often used as a synonym for detective fiction or crime fiction— in other words a novel or short story in which a detective investigates and solves a crime mystery. Sometimes mystery books are nonfiction...

 and adventure books for the moderately young.

Mårtensson lived for fifteen years in Helsingborg

Helsingborg

Helsingborg is a city and the seat of Helsingborg Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 97,122 inhabitants in 2010. Helsingborg is the centre of an area in the Øresund region of about 320,000 inhabitants in north-west Scania, and is Sweden's closest point to Denmark, with the Danish city...

, which also is the site of most of her fiction, which features a recurring staff of Helsingborg investigators, partly and sympathetically modeled after some actual police, who are also consulted for technical and investigatory details. She began writing after her son had been born, with Bertil Mårtensson

Bertil Mårtensson

Bertil Mårtensson is a Swedish author of science fiction, crime fiction and fantasy and also an academic philosopher...

. They divorced in 2005.

Most of her crime novels have been successfully translated into German and published by Bertelsmann

Bertelsmann

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. She has also published a number of popular short stories, all of this since her book debut in 1999. German titles given in parenthesis below.

Police or crime novels

• En chans för mycket (1999) (Die zärtliche Zeugin)
• Beckmörker (2000) (Die Frau im Schatten, Norwegian transl. Bekmørke)
• Torpeden (2001) (Die Tote im Sund)
• Konsten att dö (2002) (Die Kunst des Sterbens)
• Jag vet att du är ensam (2004) (Die Drohung)
• Cuba Red (2005)
• Nattportierns historia (to be published in August 2006, sold to Germany)

Adventures for the young

• Fyndet på havets botten (2004)
• Delfinernas hämnd (2004)
• Hajvarning (2005)
• Monstret på djupet (2005)
• Flygarens hemlighet (2005)
• Mördarmusslans förbannelse (sept 2006 B Wahlströms förlag)

For easy reading

• Glasets hemlighet (2004)
• Slottet Standheart – ett farligt arv (sept 2006)