KJELL ERIKSSON is the author of The Princess of Burundi, The Cruel Stars of the Night, The Demon of Dakar, The Hand that Trembles, Black Lies, Red Blood, and Open Grave. His series debut won Best First Novel by the Swedish Crime Academy, an accomplishment he later followed up by winning Best Swedish Crime Novel for The Princess of Burundi. Stone Coffin is his seventh novel to be published in the US. He lives in Sweden and France.