MARIA BOURONCLE is a Swedish author. An economist by profession, she spent over 25 years in the field of international development before publishing her first novel in 2018. "It Came to Me on a Whim" has been translated into several languages and is currently used on the Scandinavian Crime Literature course at UCLA. Maria lives in Washington, DC. "It Came to Me on a Whim: The Story of Ingeborg Andersson, Child Murderess", tells the story of Maria's great-aunt who killed her three children in 1929. The independent sequel, "The Girl with a Name Tag: A Finnish War Child in Sweden", tells the story of Hilja, a 12 year old girl who arrives with her little brother to a small Swedish village in 1944. After three days of traveling and two weeks in quarantine, the siblings are separated and Hilja finds herself in a family with a dark secret. In 2021 and 2022, Carl Eneroth's film "The Child Murderess of Vesene", based on Maria's book about Ingeborg, won the prize for "Best Short Documentary" in Budapest, London, Miami and New Jersey.