Carina Burman is a writer and literary researcher affiliated with Uppsala University. She made her debut in 1993 with Min salig bror Jean Hendrich and has written a total of ten novels—most recently, Death Takes a Holiday (2025). In 2023 her essay collection on Golden Age crime novels, Drottningar och pretendenter: Om guldålderns deckarförfattarinnor, was awarded the Swedish Crime Writers’ Academy’s prize for nonfiction book of the year.