Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2017)
Sample of authors
Niemi, Mikael
Swedish author, born and raised in Pajala in Tornedalen, near the Finnish border. His grandmother was Saami and his father a Finnish-speaking man from Tornedalen who did not learn Swedish until school. When eighteen, Mikael Niemi moved to Luleå, where he studied electronics and telecommunications in high school. After high school, he had a number of employments next to writing. He worked in a ...
Literary figures
Barbara Havers
Gender: Female
Contrary to many other female police officers in crime fiction Barbara Havers is not a good-looking woman. Her creator, Elizabeth George, claims she made her deliberately unattractive and unkempt. Havers has cooperation issues and she is moody, stubborn and temperamental. Yet she has a functional working relationship with her complete opposite, the well bred, neatly turned out Detective...