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Portrait image of Anna Jansson Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2015)

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Jansson, Anna

The Swedish crime writer Anna Jansson was born in Visby on the island of Gotland. In 1979, she moved to Örebro where she attended nursing college. She has recounted that she couldn’t stand the sight of blood, so for the next twenty-five years she worked in the hospital’s lung department. She still lives in Örebro, although she spent a great deal of time writing in nearby Vintrosa and she has a sec...

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Tabor Süden

Gender: Male

For eleven years, Chief Inspector Süden led the section in the police department in Munich that looks for missing people. But he tired of that, resigned and moved to Cologne where he worked as a waiter, according to his creator Friedrich Ani. After several years, Süden returned, however, to his home city, and became a private detective. He is renowned for his silence – he doesn’t ask many quest...

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