Eva Elisabeth "Liza" Marklund is a Swedish journalist and crime writer. She was born in P�lmark near Pite�, Norrbotten. Her novels, most of which feature the fictional character Annika Bengtzon, a newspaper journalist, have been published in thirty languages. Marklund is the co-owner of Sweden's third largest publishing house, Piratf�rlaget and a columnist in the Swedish tabloid Expressen. She is also a Unicef ambassador. The Postcard Killers, a crime thriller written in collaboration with American bestselling author James Patterson, is Marklund's twelfth book. It was published on January 27, 2010, in Sweden, and became number one on the Swedish bestseller list in February 2010. It was published on 16 August 2010 in the United States. At the end of August, it reached number one in the New York Times best-seller list, making Liza Marklund the second Swedish author ever to reach the number one spot. Marklund lives in Spain with her husband Mikael. [More at Wikipedia]

September 9th, 1962 in Piteå (Age 61)