LINDSBORG, Kan. (AP) — Swedish crime author Jan Arnald will be on this year’s Pearson Professor of Swedish Studies at Bethany College next month.

While he is visiting in Lindsborg, Arnald will headline two public events, a speech on Swedish crime fiction on April 14 and a writing workshop on April 25 in downtown Lindsborg.

The Salina Journal reports  a welcome reception April 2, and he will be the chapel speaker April 6 and 17 at Pearson Chapel. And he will be a guest lecturer in the Crime as Social Fact and Fiction class.

Arnald wrote the “Intercrime” series under the pen name of Arne Dahl. The series has sold more than 2.5 million copies and been translated into more than 25 languages.