Jan Arnald, (b 1963), primarily known under his pen name Arne Dahl, started writing very early and got a PhD in literature in 1995 at Stockholm University. At that time, he had already published a couple of literary books in his real name. But shortly after his dissertation, he experienced severe writer’s block and had to find new ways to get his creativity flowing. He found one, through changing his identity and writing in a completely new genre, crime fiction. He thus became the crime writer Arne Dahl and started publishing books such as Misterioso and Bad Blood, about the police collective called the A unit. Now, he has written twenty-one books of crime fiction and has won the European Crime Fiction Star Award for his collected work in 2019. With Within the Circle, he starts a brand new series about Eva Nyman and the NOVA team of the Stockholm police.
