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Sample of authors
Sigurðardóttir, Yrsa
The Icelandic author and civil engineer Yrsa Sigurðardóttir grew up in Reykjavik. She now lives in the suburb of Seltjarnarnes. She has two children born in the eighties and nineties with her husband, whom she has known since high school. After graduating from the University of Iceland (Háskóli Íslands) in 1988, Sigurðardóttir has worked as a civil engineer, apart from a period in the 1980s when s...
Literary figures
Tony Mendez
Gender: Male
Newly graduated from an FBI school, the young Tony Mendez is employed as sheriff in the little town of Oak Knoll in California. He has a number of murder cases to solve, and he makes enthusiastic use of the modern investigative methods he has learnt. The job is harder than Tony Mendez thought, but luckily he is given some help by a former teacher, Vince Leone, and Vince’s wife, lawyer Anne, in t...