Gunnar Blå has written two collections of short stories in the black literary tradition - Klumpigheten och andra historier [Clumsiness and Other Stories] (1999) and Cykelreparatörskan och ytterligare historier [The Bike Repairess and Further Stories] (2003) -, and hitherto two full-length novels - Den tredje systern [The Third Sister] (2005), Gå ner för trappan [Go Down the Stairs] (2007) and Övervakningen: minnet av dig [Surveillance: memory of you] (2007). The short stories, being very humoristic and absurd, are written in a stylish and poetic prose and deal with erotic themes. The novels, though still stylish and bearing the unmistakable sign of Gunnar Blå in their strangely lyrical style, take on darker and more sincere themes: parenthood, abuse, and death.
The short stories, with their mix of surrealism, eroticism and black humour, won an enthusiastic audience for Gunnar Blå in Sweden. The novels, being - in all humbleness - influenced by masters like Dashiell Hammett, Mickey Spillane and Raymond Chandler, have captured the hearts of fewer, though more devoted, readers and reviewers in the author's home country, where today classical detective novels are pitifully marginalized.
The three novels, that together form The Third Sister-trilogy, have received plentiful and deep praize in swedish media.
A translation of Gunnar Blå's second collection was published by the Norwegian publishing house Cappelen (as Kvinnen på sykkelverkstedet og andre historier) in 2005. Gunnar Blå has also written the mss of the cartoons in Fettet och andra serier [Fat and Other Comics] (2005); the comics in this volume containing no dialogue and therefore being fit also for an audience outside Sweden.