KAROLINA KALLENTOFT was born and raised in Linköping but has been living in Mallorca for many years. Early in her career, she worked as a copywriter and a scriptwriter in the field of e-learning. She has also been a freelance writer for several lifestyle magazines. On Mallorca, she has, among other things, taught Swedish at an international school and, for the past two years, has run Podcast Mallorca.

When Karolina's then-husband, the well-established crime novelist Mons Kallentoft, suggested that they write a series together—drawing inspiration from the forests of Småland from her childhood and Nordic folklore—she was ready to write the novel she had always dreamed of. The result was the Småland-series.

Agent: Erik Larsson

PUBLISHED STORYTEL, NOVEMBER 2024
genre THRILLER

“He takes a step forwards. The jackdaws circle over him with their wings spread. One of them lands with splayed feet on the ground in front of him. Opens its yellow beak and lets out a screeching sound.
The beast in front of him.
He has reached it now. Can't breathe.
It is a woman.
Dead.”

It is the hot summer of 1994, there is football fever in the country and in the damp, deep green forests outside Nässjö the hunt for a murderer begins. At the same time, an animal abuser is ravaging the small community and is it a wolf that has been seen?

THE WOLF WATCHES IN THE DARK is an evocative story about a brutal murder, a small community in the deepest parts of Småland and the people there. How they try to believe in the power of God and in love, how they fight for a good life. But man is only a small creature and, surrounded by nature, he begins to find answers in its mystery and dark forces.

THE WOLF WATCHES IN THE DARK is Mons Kallentoft's and Karolina Kallentoft's first book together.