Foto: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2014)
Sample of authors
Kepler, Lars
Lars Kepler is the alias that the two writers and married couple Alexander Ahndoril and Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril use when they jointly write crime novels; the first was The Hypnotist (2009, Hypnotisören). It was supposed to be a secret as to who lay behind the pseudonym, but it was revealed already the same year. The book was given a major launch by the publishing house, but met with mixed ...
Literary figures
Mma Makutsi
Gender: Female
She struggles with her poor skin and unflattering spectacles, but Mma Grace Makutsi has impressively high grades from her secretarial course and is a lady with skin on her nose and a sharp tongue. In Alexander McCall Smith’s suite of novels about The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency in Botswana’s capital Gaborone, Mma Makutsi is first employed, but after a while becomes a part-owner of the agency. S...