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Sample of authors
Roslund, Anders
Nils Anders Micael Roslund grew up in the county of Scania, Sweden. He lived from time to time at the home of his grandfather where life was quieter than at his own house. Roslund eventually moved to Stockholm with the aim of becoming an author; he still has several unpublished novels lying around. A text by Roslund was included in an anthology entitled Grupp 90 in the early nineties, before he...
Literary figures
Vera Stanhope
Gender: Female
An eccentric, middle-aged, controversial detective chief inspector in Northumberland and in a series of police novels by Ann Cleeves. Stanhope is a grim lone wolf and workaholic, in part because as a child she was subjected to sexual abuse by an acquaintance of her single father. She still lives in her childhood home, drives her father’s old Landrover and solves murder cases in her own very s...