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: The Story of Ingeborg Andersson, Child Murderess" has been translated into several languages and is currently used on the Scandinavian Crime Literature course at UCLA. Maria lives in Washington D.C. and in the fall of 2025, her guidebook about the city, co-authored with Swedish journalist Karin Henriksson, was released.

"It Came to Me on a Whim", 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", published in Swedish in 2022 and in Finnish 2024, tells the story of Hilja, a 12 year old Finnish girl who arrives to Vesene, a small Swedish village in 1944.

"Chicago Dreams: The Story of a Young Immigrant", the last part of the trilogy about young women during the 20th century, was published in Swedish in 2024.

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.