Exponent of the psychological thriller, Inger Frimansson has emerged as one of Sweden's foremost female crime writers. Novels such as Katten som inte dog (The Cat that Didn't Die) concentrate on an inner psychological and emotional landscape, and the causes or effects of crime from the individual's perspective. God natt min älskade (Goodnight, my love) won her the Swedish Detective Fiction Academy's prize for best crime novel of 1998.