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Sample of authors
McDermid, Val
Val McDermid is a Scottish crime writer born in Kirkcaldy, Fife. She attended Kirkcaldy High School where she was among a group of pupils that participated in a controversial project for especially talented students based on IQ tests.
When she was seventeen, she was the first student from a Scottish state school to be admitted to St. Hilda’s College, Oxford, where she graduated with a Bachelor o...
Literary figures
Christian Rønnes
Gender: Male
Little is known about his private life, but in the criminal investigation department in Trondheim everyone knows who he is: an honest, pleasant veteran who eventually retires in books by Fredrik Skagen, but who is still sought out for advice by his younger former colleagues. Christian Rønnes is a stable elderly gentleman, he thinks and acts sometimes rather slowly, but he sticks stubbornly at it ...