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Sample of authors
Sten, Viveca
Viveca Bergstedt Sten grew up in Stockholm. She spent her summer breaks on the island of Sandhamn in the Stockholm archipelago where her family has owned a house since 1917 when her great grandparents acquired the Lagerta family estate from the son of the master pilot. She read and wrote from an early age, she edited the school magazine and at university she contributed to the law students’ m...
Literary figures
Simon (Si) Serrailler
Gender: Male
He is a police detective, later a chief inspector, in the fictive little cathedral town of Lafferton in southern England, where he also grew up. Simon Serrailler – Si to his family – has two twin sisters and a severely handicapped little sister. He is described by author Susan Hill as just over 35 years of age, blond and handsome, and although he is attractive to women he is single. In his free ti...