Photo: Dan Hansson / SvD / TT (2009)
Sample of authors
Ceder, Camilla
Camilla Ceder grew up in Olofstorp near Gothenburg. She studied social work and psychotherapy and now lives in Gothenburg where she works as a social worker and welfare officer.
Ceder wrote her first novel, Frozen Moment (2009, Fruset ögonblick), during periods when her youngest daughter was sleeping. It is set in the sparsely populated area of her native west Sweden among car mechanics, mink ...
Literary figures
Sharon McCone
Gender: Female
She grew up in an area with social problems in the city of San Diego, but after some difficult teenage years she took a hold of her life, studied at university, became engaged in politics and eventually became a detective in a cooperative of lawyers. Author Marcia Muller describes Sharon McCone as dark and attractive, but also tough and stubborn – and she is regarded as the first hard-boiled f...