Viveca Sten

Still Waters 2008 Closed Circles 2009 Guiltless shallows

2010 • The Sandhamn novels are set in the archipelago of , on the idyllic island of Sandhamn, known since the 17th century as Sandhamn Stock- the center of royal naval pilots holm • Sandhamn is also the yachting center of and home to the Swedish Royal Yachting Society (KSSS)

• The island only has a tiny population of 120 islanders, but it is invaded by 3000 summer guests and hordes of tourists and sailing enthusiasts each summer

• The scenery is idyllic, but evil lurks beneath the surface…

Meet Viveca Sten • Married, with three children aged 12, 15 & 18, Viveca lives just north of Stockholm

• She also has a highly successful legal career as General Counsel at Posten Norden (the Swedish & Danish Post

• Since 1917, Viveca´s family have spent all their summers at Sandhamn where her novels are set

• Viveca has written several non-fiction books prior to her crime novels

• www.vivecasten.se

Non-fiction books by Viveca Sten

International Contracts 2003

Business Outsourcing of Negotiations IT-services 2003 1999

A compelling story A crime series about defending your heritage and refusing dwelling on the driving to compromise when forces behind murder and the heart of your very evil set in the idyllic existence is threatened

- 500 000 copies sold since 2008 in Sweden… The story of a young boy growing up on Sandhamn during World War I. The wrongs done to him Power, prestige and leads to disastrous ambition join in a foul consequences a game when the deputy hundred years later chairman of the Royal when a young Swedish Yachting girl disappears on the Society is shot at the Island. start of the largest regatta in Scandinavia

Main characters in Sandhamn series The mother-in-law

Nora Linde, 39, a bank lawyer struggling to balance career and motherhood.

Two sons: Monica Harald Linde - Adam, 12 - Henrik´s parents - Simon, 8 - former ambassador - snobbish & condescending Thomas Andreasson, Detective Inspector

- divorced following the death of 3-month old Married to Henrik Linde, daughter Emily in SIDS M D - childhood friends with - son of an ambassador Nora - regatta enthusiast - arrogant and selfish Critically Acclaimed

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It will be shown in dec 2010 and has also been sold to Danish, Norwegian and Finnish national tv-channels

Alexandra Rapaport Famous Swedish/Danish of the Royal Dramatic actor Jacob Cedergren Well-known Ingmar Theatre Bergman-actress Harriet Andersson

Also available in:

• Danish – Rosinante

• German – Kiwi

• Italian – Rizzoli

• Norwegian – Shipsted

• Spanish – RBA

• Dutch

Future books

• The forth book in the series is scheduled to be published on May 4, 2011

• Two more synopsis have been written describing both detailed story lines and the lives of the main characters

Extract from Swedish Book Review

”Viveca Sten is a rising star among Swedish crime writers, and she also works as a very successful lawyer. Her novels are set in the Stockholm archipelago on the atmospheric island of Sandhamn, a tiny community of only some 130 islanders which is invaded by hordes of tourists throughout the summer months. The setting is idyllic – but evil lurks beneath the surface. Viveca Sten has so far published two novels: I delugnaste vatten (Still Waters) 2007, and I den innersta kretsen (Closed Circles) 2009.

In this extract from the first novel (ages 7-43), we meet Detective Inspector Thomas Andreasson and his childhood friend Nora Linde, a lawyer. Thomas is struggling to come to terms with the death of his young daughter and the subsequent break-up of his marriage, while the cracks are beginning to show in Nora’s own marriage to the increasingly arrogant and selfish Henrik.As Thomas investigates a mysterious death on the island, Nora is inexorably drawn into the mystery – but the real danger is much closer than either of them can imagine…”

SWEDISH BOOK REVIEW, no 1/2010

Original title: I de lugnaste vatten Publisher: Forum, 2008 No of pages: 314 ISBN: 9789137131900

Prologue – Still waters

”Everything was completely still, peaceful as it is only in winter, when the archipelago belongs to those who live there, and the raucous summer visitors have not yet taken over the islands. The water was dark and shining, the cold of winter lying heavily on the surface. Odd patches of snow could still be seen on the rocks; they had not yet melted away completely.A few mergansers stood out like dots against the sky, and the sun was still low on the horizon. ‘Help me,’ he yelled. ‘Help me, for God’s sake!’ The rope that was thrown towards him was knotted to form a loop. In the ice-cold water he clumsily passed it around his body. ‘Pull me up,’ he panted, grasping at the side of the boat with fingers that had already begun to stiffen in the cold. When the anchor to which the rope was attached was thrown over the rail, he seemed more surprised than anything, as if he didn’t understand that its weight would very soon drag him down to the bottom. That he had only a few seconds left to live before his body followed the heavy lump of iron. The last thing visible was the hand breaking the surface, tangled in the fishing net.The waters closed over it with an almost imperceptible sigh. Then there was only the sound of the engine, as the boat slowly turned and began to make its way back towards the harbour.”