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Sample of authors
Gerhardsen, Carin
Carin Behrman, as she was called in those days, was born and grew up in Katrineholm. Her father was a judge at the Katrineholm district court, and the main secretary in the government commission on the freedom of expression which resulted in the Freedom of the Press Act and the constitutional law on freedom of expression. Her mother was a gymnasie school teacher of Swedish and English – so there w...
Literary figures
Jessica Fletcher
Gender: Female
An elderly, former English teacher, who, after her husband Frank died, became a crime writer and an amateur detective. She has no children, but a lot of friends, some even in the police force. Jessica Fletcher was played by actress Angela Lansbury in the TV series ”Murder She Wrote”. Some of the episodes were used as base for three novels by John Anderson. After that, a number of stand-alone boo...