VERONICA PALM debuted as a writer in 2018 with the partially autobiographical SISTERHOOD: A FEMINIST IDEA BOOK. The book bred an appetite for writing and Veronica embarked on a new adventure, writing fiction. In 2021, NOT ALL MEN, the first part of her suspense series about Emilia Berg, was published. This was followed by the second instalment, HIGH PRICE, in 2022, and the third, WITH YOUR LIFE AT STAKE, in 2023.

Veronica’s crime novels have been praised as tightly-plotted page-turners. Readers follow the memorable politician and parliamentarian Emilia Berg as she is forced to deal with a variety of crimes alongside her career and life as a divorced mother of two. The Emilia Berg-series also provide a unique window into political life behind the scenes.

After a distinguished life in the absolute center of politics, including serving as a Member of Parliament, Veronica left her political duties in 2015. Today she devotes herself entirely to writing, mainly books, but also as a recurring columnist for several newspapers.

Agent: Moa Alfvén

Book 3 in the ‘Emilia Berg’-series

It has been an eventful term for the culture committee's chairman Emilia Berg, but now the Riksdag's summer break is finally at the door. It is almost time for the annual politicians' week in Visby and Almedalen, and in the autumn the election campaign will begin. Most of all, Emilia longs for holidays with her children. Then the incredible happens. A bomb threat that puts an end to the spring's very last vote in the Riksdag turns out to be the beginning of a deadly conspiracy with ramifications high up in one of the governing parties. A conspiracy on the absolute right wants to carry out a bloody and violent attack during Almedal Week. Emilia's name, along with other top female politicians, is at the top of the conspirators' death list. The days in Almedalen are an invisible countdown to the terrible thing that is about to happen. Emilia's personal connection to one of the conspirators leads her into the heart of the conspiracy. In the end, she is the only one who can stop the terrorist act, with her own life at stake.