Anders de la Motte is a Swedish crime writer, born on 19 June 1971 and raised in Billesholm, Skåne. Before writing full time he was a police officer and then worked in corporate security, latterly as head of security for Dell in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. His debut, Game (2010), won the Swedish Crime Writers' Academy debut award and opened a trilogy completed by Buzz and Bubble; UltiMatum won the Academy's best Swedish crime novel award in 2015. Slutet på sommaren (2016), the first of his Seasons quartet, was adapted as the Viaplay series End of Summer (2023), later shown on BBC Four. In English he is published by Atria for the Asker series, featuring detective Leo Asker: The Mountain King, The Glass Man and The Rust Forest.
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Anders de la Motte is a Swedish crime writer, born on 19 June 1971 and raised in Billesholm, Skåne. Before writing full time he was a police officer and then worked in corporate security, latterly as head of security for Dell in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. His debut, Game (2010), won the Swedish Crime Writers' Academy debut award and opened a trilogy completed by Buzz and Bubble; UltiMatum won the Academy's best Swedish crime novel award in 2015. Slutet på sommaren (2016), the first of his Seasons quartet, was adapted as the Viaplay series End of Summer (2023), later shown on BBC Four. In English he is published by Atria for the Asker series, featuring detective Leo Asker: The Mountain King, The Glass Man and The Rust Forest.
