IT CAME TO ME ON A WHIM: The Story of Ingeborg Andersson, Child Murderess, tells the story of Maria Bouroncle's great-aunt, who killed her three children in 1929.
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The book has been translated from the Swedish into Dutch, English and Finnish, and is currently used on the Scandinavian Crime Literature Course at UCLA.
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.
The independent sequel THE GIRL WITH A NAME TAG: The Story of a Finnish War Child has been translated into English and Finnish, and is required reading in Scandinavian Studies at the University of Michigan.
CHICAGO DREAMS: The Story of a Young Immigrant, the last part of the trilogy about young women in Sweden during the early 20th century, is available in English and Swedish and was recently awarded the American Scandinavian Association grant for its contribution to a deeper understanding of Nordic culture.