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Portrait of Domingo Villar Photo: Xurxo Lobato/Getty Images (2009)

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Villar, Domingo

Domingo Villar was a Spanish novelist born in Vigo, Galicia, but later he resided in Madrid. He was for many years host for a radio show about food. When he was not writing novels he published short stories in magazines and produced screenplays for film and television. Villar died at only 51 years old due to a stroke.
Domingo Villar published his first novel, Water-Blue Eyes, in 2006. He wrote...

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Christer Wijk

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Inspector Wijk is one of the best-known criminal investigators in Swedish crime fiction. He was born and raised in the fictional town of Skoga (based on the town of Nora in author Maria Lang’s mystery stories); it is there and in Stockholm that he solves most of his cases. He is close to his mother, who still lives in Skoga, and he later marries the singer Camilla Martin – a marriage that is not w...

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