The analysis of all Läckberg’s books has been done using so-called stylometry: statistical data analysis, which reveals writers’ stylistic fingerprints. The investigation reveals that two titles – “Women Without Mercy” and “Go to Jail” – are likely to be written by someone else, claims Quarter.
The program also singles out Camilla Läckberg’s editor Pascal Engman as the actual author of at least “Women without mercy”. A valuation with another similar program claims that the author of “Go to jail” is neither Läckberg nor Engman, but someone else.
“According to some newspaper’s AI analysis, some of my books are more in Pascal Engman’s style than mine. Which shows one of the limiting factors AI has,” Camilla Läckberg comments on the whole thing on his Instagram account.
It is not the first time Camilla Läckberg has been accused of having one, or more, ghostwriters. When Kvartal’s reporter asks Camilla Läckberg’s press officer Paulina L Bånge for a comment, she replies: “Your accusations are not something I intend to dignify with an answer. 35 million books sold speak for themselves”.
The stylometry method has also been used by security services and in police investigations. It was also allegedly used to crack the mystery of who is hiding behind the author pseudonym Elena Ferrante.