Johanna, for our conversation, which means so much to me.
Ninni, for being there to celebrate with me when things are going well and (when necessary) to help me pick up the pieces when they’re not. For being my own little treasure—friend, colleague, and mentor all in one.
Niklas, for making me believe I could finish writing this book, even when I doubted it. Especially then. To you, Max and Molly: In the end, everything is about you. Thank you for being in my life. I love you.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Caroline Eriksson holds a master’s degree in social psychology and worked for more than ten years in human-resource management before deciding to pursue writing, her childhood dream. Her first two novels are based on historical Swedish murder cases, and her debut, The Devil Helped Me, was nominated for Stora Ljudbokspriset (the Big Audiobook Prize) in 2014.
Caroline has lived all over the world. She attended high school in Quantico, Virginia; studied at the University of Adelaide in Australia; and now lives in Stockholm. She denies being a daredevil but admits that she once threw herself off a mountain in New Zealand in a hang-gliding experiment.
Her greatest adventure today is raising her two children, and she satisfies any residual wanderlust by exploring the most terrifying parts of life—its dark psychological elements—in her writing. The Watcher is Caroline’s second psychological suspense thriller and her second book translated into English.
ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR
Tara F. Chace has translated more than twenty-five novels from Norwegian, Swedish, and Danish. She earned her PhD in Scandinavian languages and literature from the University of Washington and lives in Seattle with her family.
ALSO BY CAROLINE ERIKSSON
The Missing
Copyright
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, organizations, places, events, and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
Text copyright © 2017 Caroline Eriksson
Translation copyright © 2018 Tara F. Chace
All rights reserved.
No part of this book may be reproduced, or stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without express written permission of the publisher.
Previously published as Hon som vakar by Forum in 2017 in Sweden. Translated from Swedish by Tara F. Chace. First published in English by AmazonCrossing in 2018.
Published by AmazonCrossing, Seattle
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ISBN-13: 9781503905405
ISBN-10: 1503905403
Cover design by David Drummond