Pascal Engman
Pascal Carl Orlando Engman Murchio is a Swedish author and journalist. He is known for his crime fiction series featuring police detective Vanessa Frank, beginning with Eldslandet in 2018. His works have been published in at least 19 languages, including English.
Early life and education
Pascal Carl Orlando Engman Murchio was born in Stockholm, Sweden, to a Swedish mother and a Chilean father.Journalism
Engman began his professional life as a journalist, working first at the regional newspaper Trelleborgs Allehanda, then at online magazine Nyheter24, then at the Swedish evening newspaper Expressen.Writing career
Engman's debut novel, Patrioterna, was published in Sweden in 2017.Soon after publishing, the TV rights to Patrioterna were sold to Fabrik Entertainment in Los Angeles, the production company behind Amazon Prime's Bosch series and AMC's The Killing.
Following that stand-alone title, he began writing a series about police detective Vanessa Frank. As of 2022, there were four titles in the Vanessa Frank series: Eldslandet, Råttkungen, Änkorna and Kokain. Råttkungen is the first of these to be published in English, under the title Femicide, by Legend Press as part of a three-book deal. Femicide has already sold over 100,000 copies in Sweden alone.
As of 2022 the Vanessa Frank series is sold in over 20 countries and has been translated into 19 languages including English, German, Italian, Polish, and Spanish.