In fact Resin won the four most important crime awards in Scandinavia which is unusual for a book that wasn't meant to belong in that genre.
Resin is written in the fertile borderland between strict genre and originality, the beloved cliché and the new code.
The Niels Matthiasen committee called Ane Riel: "an author of unique talent, extraordinary courage and a rare imagination.
Riel grew up in a suburb of Aarhus, Denmark, as the daughter of a lawyer and a children's book illustrator.
During this time, she was also assisting and traveling with her partner Alex Riel, one of the most significant and influential jazz drummers in Europe.