Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2016)
Sample of authors
Egeland, Tom
Norwegian author and journalist, born in Oslo and raised in the suburb of Kalbakken in Groruddalen, where his parents had a couple of shops. One of his forefathers is Jon Flatabø from Kvam in Hardanger, who wrote so-called ‘folkedikter’ and was one of the pioneers in Norwegian popular literature. As a young teenager, Egeland was for a short period active in the Christian youth club Heimdal, but he...
Literary figures
Charlie Hood
Gender: Male
He is employed by the Los Angeles police, but has been lent out to the federal police and works for them in the border areas between the USA and Mexico in most of the books about him by T. Jefferson Parker. Charlie Hood is young, good-looking but with an everyday appearance, and lives alone. The great love of his life, the criminal Suzanne Jones, is killed already in the first novel. In his...