Dan Buthler is a Swedish-based crime writer, born on the Danish island of Bornholm in 1965. He is the author of the Gabriel Creuz series and the co-author of the Christopher Silfverbielke, Jacob Colt, Alex Storm and Richard Axman novels — twenty-six books since his debut in 2007.
His route to writing was not the usual one. Technical gymnasium, then running his own business, then a business degree in marketing from his studies in Lund and Stockholm, then the internet division at Dagens Nyheter — where he left his last conventional job on the final day of 1999. That mix of commerce, technology and institutions runs through everything he writes.
Most of his books have been written with someone else — five co-authors in all. Thirteen with Dag Öhrlund between 2007 and 2018, four with Leffe Grimwalker, the Richard Axman novels with Fredrik Sandberg. Gabriel Creuz is his solo work — and the series where the preoccupation with inherited power, law and buried history comes fully into focus.
He also hosts Spänningspodden, a Swedish podcast about thrillers and the people who write them. Away from the desk: ball sports, golf and handball mostly, and a long-standing interest in world affairs and how systems connect to each other.