Carina Burman is a writer, literary researcher and is affiliated with Uppsala University as a ‘docent’. Burman made her debut in 1993 and has written a total of ten novels. 

Her non-fiction work Drottningar och pretendenter: Om guldålderns deckarförfattarinnor (Queens and pretenders: the women crime writers of the Golden Age), was awarded the Swedish Crime Writers’ Academy’s prize for non-fiction book of 2023.

Photo: Thron Ullberg

It was this book that inspired her latest novel Death Takes a Holiday (2025), a detective story in the tradition of Agatha Christie and Swedish 1950s queen of crime Maria Lang, for escapists, lovers of Italy and history buffs.

Death Takes a Holiday was published by Albert Bonniers and was an instant bestseller in Sweden and rights have already been sold to Turbine in Denmark. 

So entertaining and smart that I just melt.
– Skånska Dagbladet, Sweden

Oh, I am enchanted! Seduced, even. Carina Burman has written a wonderful little detective story, sweet as sugar but with enough realistic darkness at the bottom
– Sydsvenskan, Sweden

She invites readers on a bus journey to Rome in 1956. As a reader, it is of course an excellent opportunity to escape the miserable winter to the land of sun and lemons.
– Femina, Sweden

But oh how refreshingly funny Death Takes a Holiday is! Rarely have I been so eager to travel to Rome.
– Expressen, Sweden

We’re delighted to be working with Carina Burman and you can find more information about her work here.