Jan Arnald / Arne Dahl

Jan Arnald (born 11 January 1963) is a Swedish novelist and literary critic, who uses the pen name Arne Dahl when writing crime fiction. He is also a regular writer in Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter.

He published Barbarer (2001) and Maria och Artur (2006) under his own name, but under his pen name he has written a series of crime novels about fictional group of Swedish crime investigators, called "A Gruppen" in Swedish, "die A-Gruppe" in the German translations, and "the Intercrime Group" in the first English translation. The books have been translated into several languages.

The first five books were made into 180-minute films and have been released on DVD with English subtitles in Sweden. The first, Misterioso, was screened on SVT1 in Sweden on 27 and 28 December 2011. The series was picked up by BBC 4 and screened on British television on Saturday nights as part of BBC 4's foreign crime series season starting in April 2013.

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