Camilla Grebe Books in Order

If you want to meet her main profiler hero: The Ice Beneath Her → After She's Gone.
If you prefer a psychologist at the center: Some Kind of Peace → More Bitter Than Death.
If you just want a quick taste of her style: Strangers → Some Kind of Peace.
If you like to read in publication order: Some Kind of Peace → More Bitter Than Death → Strangers → The Ice Beneath Her → After She's Gone.

Camilla Grebe was born in 1968 in Älvsjö, a suburb of Stockholm, and grew up in a family where books were part of daily life. Crime fiction in particular was always close at hand, from classic Swedish police procedurals to imported thrillers.

Crime stories were part of her life from the beginning.

After school she chose business over literature, enrolling at the Stockholm School of Economics. There she trained for a career in finance and management rather than on the page, learning how companies work, how people make decisions under pressure, and how money moves behind the scenes. She later co founded the audiobook publisher Storyside and spent the early 2000s there as both CEO and publisher, working with manuscripts, narrators, and recording studios.

In 2004 Grebe emailed her sister, psychologist Åsa Träff, a draft chapter about a fragile therapist who was more comfortable probing other people's secrets than facing her own. The sisters began sending the story back and forth, one chapter at a time, treating it as an experiment rather than a career plan. That experiment grew into the Siri Bergman series, which follows a Stockholm psychologist who sleeps with the lights on and is slowly forced to confront her past. Writing with a practicing therapist gave Grebe a direct line into the daily texture of clinical work and into the vulnerabilities that sit behind professional calm.

The first Siri Bergman novel, Some Kind of Peace, appeared in 2009, followed by More Bitter Than Death and several later books that continued Siri's journey as both therapist and reluctant sleuth. The series weaves together therapy sessions, tense investigations, and Siri's own struggles with grief and anxiety. Two of the novels were nominated for Best Swedish Crime Novel of the Year by the Swedish Crime Writers' Academy, a sign that her blend of psychology and suspense was resonating strongly with readers.

Those books introduced the mix of fragile professionals, intense therapy rooms, and Swedish landscapes that still runs through much of her work.

Around the same time Grebe also stepped into international intrigue with the Moscow Noir trilogy, co written with financier Paul Leander-Engström. Those thrillers draw on Russian business and politics and explore how corruption, ambition, and fear can warp both institutions and individuals. Moving between intimate psychological suspense and big canvas geopolitical stories helped her stretch different muscles as a writer.

In 2015 Grebe published The Ice Beneath Her, her first crime novel as a solo author, launching the series built around profiler Hanne Lagerlind-Schön and detective Peter Lindgren. Set against wintry Stockholm and its suburbs, the book uses shifting viewpoints to explore a brutal murder in the home of a charismatic CEO and the fallout for everyone connected to him. The follow up, After She's Gone, deepens Hanne's story and moves the action to a struggling small town where a cold case, a missing partner, and a teenager with a dangerous secret collide. That novel went on to win both the Best Swedish Crime Novel Award and the Glass Key, the major prize for crime writing from across the Nordic countries.

Across all of her books, Grebe returns to a few obsessions: damaged families, long buried guilt, the way violence seeps into everyday life, and the question of how well we can ever really know the people around us. Her stories are firmly rooted in Swedish settings, from city streets and archipelago cottages to factories, refugee housing, and police stations. The pace can be intense, but she tends to focus as much on feelings, choices, and consequences as on the mechanics of solving a case.

These days she lives in Stockholm with her children and writes full time, often drawing on detailed research and long conversations with experts to anchor her plots. Writing, for her, is another way of asking why people do the things they do, and her readers come back for that mix of suspense, emotional honesty, and everyday detail.