About

English release

  • 2011 Staffan release his first non-fiction novel, Under Floden.
  • 2012 Samnang, Tiggarpojken.
  • 2013 Sista färden.
  • 2014 Byggfirman
  • 2017 Opium.
  • 2018 En tid för gudar.
  • 2019 Någonstans somnar någon i gråt.
  • 2020 Bedrägeriet.
  • 2022 Boken om Lars.
  • 2024 Scammers (written in English)

Staffan is now releasing his first novel, Scammers, written for the English speaking market and the book takes place in London.

Also two of his previous novels have now been translated into English and will be released on the English-language market in autumn 2024 and spring 2025.

SCAMMERS
The novel was contracted to all English-speaking countries, Oktober 23 as paper book and e-book.

The scammers is an 80.500 words non-fiction novel. We follow how Russian oligarchs and mafia infiltrates companies working in the London Stoch Exchange.
Daniel and Charles have worked years in the financial sector, selling shares and other assets. One day they decide to start their own trading business.
It goes quickly from faithfulness to dishonesty,
From dreaming of financial independence to swindling huge sums of money and from obeying the law to being heavily criminally charged. Charles hang himself and soon, a beloved son loses his life while the Russian mafia infiltrates their business, and someone has their limbs brutally stripped off by a loved one on a living room floor.
The scammers scares everyone who thinks they have a good relationship, a bank account and them who fantasizing about financial freedom.

UNDER THE SURFACE
Under the Surface is a 223.000 words non-fiction novel based on oral narratives, on factual conditions and on facts about organized crime in Southeast Asia where the military and police play a significant role. The novel is for readers between fifteen and eighty years old.
Most of the events described in the book have taken place in real life: The sadistic rape of the protagonist Prim’s mother Lu, the different ways in which young girls end up in the sex trade, how they are forced to brothel schools before being sold off to neighbouring countries and drugged to satisfy many sex buyers on all twenty-four hours.
At the three hundred and fifty unguarded border crossings, drugs, weapons and people are smuggled.

THE BEGGAR BOY
For the beggar children in Phnom Penh, life is hard. A child is not worth much, except as a means of income.
And when the leader of the beggar team, Aaron, tries to export his tightly controlled group of five eight-year-old children from Cambodia to Thailand, a chain of events begins with fatal consequences.
Because there are many who want a share of the cake, whether it concerns organized begging, forced prostitution or trafficking of children.
Samnang manages to escape just before he is to be fixed with acid or tools to become more profitable beggar children, at least in the short term.
Together with his cloth elephant Soriya, he continues to escape and becomes a hardy survivor in his new hometown of Bangkok.
But salvation exists as long as brave people dare to look behind the facade, even if trust is a luxury for the better-off.
The beggar boy is an 130.000 words non-fiction novel, based on true events.
For many years Staffan has worked behind the scenes among criminals before writing the books.