Emelie Schepp (1979) worked for many years as a project manager in the advertising industry. In 2013 she released her debut book Marked For Life under her own publishing house and with 40,000 copies sold she is still ranked as Sweden's premier self-publisher. Since then, she has released several books in the series about the complex prosecutor Jana Berzelius. The books have been sold to 30 countries and in over one million copies and have become readers’ favorites and bestsellers in many countries. Emelie Schepp was awarded the Specsavers Reader’s Choice Award for best Crime Writer in 2016 and 2017.