Katarina Bivald wins US award!

Swedish author Katarina Bivald has been awarded the Lilian Jackson Braun Memorial Award by the Mystery Writers of America for her novel The Murders in Great Diddling. The book marks the start of her cozy mystery series about Berit Gardner.
Originally published by Forum in Sweden and the English edition is published by Poisoned Pen Press/Sourcebooks.

“It’s a great joy and an incredible honor to receive this award from the Mystery Writers of America, among such well-known writers and nominees,” says Bivald. “Berit Gardner holds a special place in my heart, with her prickliness, her slightly old-fashioned sense of right and wrong, and her habit of always saying what she thinks. I’m so happy that she – and the other odd people in Great Diddling – have now taken the U.S. by storm!”