Their book depicts women killed by their husbands

- Surprisingly, letters, diaries, notes and, in some cases, previous police inquiries have often been preserved. But the most important source has been contact with all relatives, says Kristina Edblom.

- It is the women's voices who speak in the book and the title In the event of my death is a letter that a woman wrote to her children, says Kerstin Weigl. Kim was the woman who wrote her farewell letter fully aware that she risked dying. Her ex-husband was sentenced to 18 years in prison for murder.

A total of 299 women's lives were extinguished by the men they loved, between January 2000 and June 2019. This shows the survey that journalists Kristina Edblom and Kerstin Weigl started ten years ago. At least one woman a month has been killed. In many cases, women's fate has barely been noticed by the media or has only become small notices.

- An important conclusion we want to convey with this book is that the women have known about how dangerous it is and they have asked for help. They have talked about maybe they will die and told it to their children, says Kristina Edblom.

- What is striking is that in many cases she has tried to get out of a dangerous relationship. It is precisely when she leaves that it becomes dangerous. With this book, we want to tell you how their lives have been until the crime and how difficult it can be to get out of such a relationship, says Kerstin Weigl.

In many cases, women have also been in contact with social services, psychiatric care and in some cases even the police. But it is not always their cry for help taken seriously.

- There may be many different things that fall, but we believe that the view of the crimes is important, that there is still a notion that these are private family tragedies. It can say "apartment rupture" in a note, in documents it can say "conflicts". But when you look more closely at these crimes, it is something completely different, says Kerstin Weigl.

Christian Edblom and Kerstin Weigl hope that the book will increase the understanding of the mechanisms behind the crimes and how it can be for the women who live in these relationships.

- But also the children who remain, and the families who will deal with difficult life traumas, says Kristina Edblom.

- We show that you can actually talk about it. These families often feel that they live in a stigma that they are lonely and vulnerable to touch, but they want to tell, says Kerstin Weigl.