LINA AREKLEW WAS born in Stockholm 1979 and grew up on Höga Kusten, the High Coast. Today she lives part time in a house northwest of Stockholm and part time in a croft outside Örnsköldsvik. After a career as a project manager within telecommunications, she studied literature and now works as a freelance copy editor as well as with sales and marketing within the publishing industry.
SHE DEBUTED IN 2020 with her debut novel Death In Summer, set in Stockholm and on the island Ulvön outside Örnsköldsvik. A poignant crime novel about loneliness and sorrow which takes off with the tragic sinking of the passenger ferry M/S Estonia in 1994, and was nominated for the Crimetime Award for Best Debut. It was followed by In the Dark in 2021, Of Shame in 2023, Without You in 2024, and Through Fire in 2025. The sixth novel in Areklew’s High Coast Series, Beneath the Surface, reaches its readers in 2026.
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