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About the author
Ritta Jacobsson was born in 1950 in Finland. She writes in Swedish and she is a well-known and appreciated writer of crime stories for children. She was recently awarded the prestigious Swedish Prize “the Bloodhound” for best Swedish crime novel for young adults.
Ritta Jacobsson started writing full time in 1994 and she has since then published two series of crime novels for children/ young adults. Her first crime novel for adults, Exekutorn, was published at Albert Bonniers Förlag in 2002 under the pseudonym of Helena Nurmi. She is now doing the last work on her next one. Many of Ritta’s books have been translated into Finnish.

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		RITTA JACOBSSON EXEKUTORN As a newly hired consultant at a local bostadsbolag, Martina is confronted with a reality far away from the calm area she lives in. Martina who is in the middle of a divorce has more than enough problems as it is at home but already the first week, two young men are found murdered in her area. It seems to be some kind of controversy in the criminal world. At the same time another figure appears in the periphery with totally different motives. This is a worrying crime novel about power and powerlessness , about cause and effect – about horrible crimes and ghastly punishments. Exekutorn was published by Albert Bonnier förlag in 2002.

	Exekutorn describes reality in an almost brutal way. Helena Nurmi manages to keep the reader constanlyt alert from the first chapter to the last. This is a book that you gladly read at one sitting and it is perfect in front of the fire when the snow is whirling outside the window. SP-Posten Shocking in a suburban surrounding Now, don’t believe that it is enough for Nurmi with a plain portrait of a suburb with one or two murders. Everything is not conflicts between criminal bands and meaningless violence. You can soon sense a murderer with highly personal motives in this well-written, thrilling and staggering debut. Sydsvenskan	About the author Ritta Jacobsson was born in 1950 in Finland. She writes in Swedish and she is a well-known and appreciated writer of crime stories for children. She was recently awarded the prestigious Swedish Prize “the Bloodhound” for best Swedish crime novel for young adults. Ritta Jacobsson started writing full time in 1994 and she has since then published two series of crime novels for children/ young adults. Her first crime novel for adults, Exekutorn, was published at Albert Bonniers Förlag in 2002 under the pseudonym of Helena Nurmi. She is now doing the last work on her next one. Many of Ritta’s books have been translated into Finnish.