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Sample of authors
Holmén, Martin
Swedish author and teacher, was born in Eskilstuna and grew up in Krogstorp outside Sölvesborg, where he attended school. In 1993, he moved to Stockholm, and has since lived there with the exception of a couple of years as a student in Umeå. After working for a while, including in the restaurant branch, he studied at university in Stockholm and Umeå. He gained a master’s degree and subsequently wo...
Literary figures
Diane Fry
Gender: Female
Detective Diane Fry, who features in a string of novels by Stephen Booth, is a competent investigator, but under the surface she is an insecure and vulnerable woman. She has a complicated relationship with Ben Cooper, one of her subordinates at the police station in the fictional town of Edendale in Derbyshire’s Peak District. They neither can or want to admit that they are in love.