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Sample of authors
Dahl, Arne
For a long time, there was speculation as to who could lie behind the crime-writer pseudonym Arne Dahl. Considering the literary qualities and that it was obvious that he was a person who had read widely, a lot of people guessed that it must be an established author – or possibly a collective. With his series of novels about the so-called A-group, most readers wanted, at any rate, to place him i...
Literary figures
Alex Morrow
Gender: Female
Morrow is a working class detective from Glasgow. She is the mother of twins and the protagonist in a series of tartan noir books by Denise Mina. Morrow is not always very forthcoming or correct, but she struggles to combine her job with being a mother and against misogynous bosses and colleagues in a city characterised by increasing class differences and violent crime.