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Sample of authors
Hancock, Anne Mette
After having worked as a journalist and press & publicity manager, Danish Anne Mette Hancock made her international breakthrough as an author with her first crime novel, The Corpse Flower (2017, Ligblomsten). She was born and grew up in the small town of Gråsten in Jylland, Denmark, just north of the border with Germany, but when she was 19 she moved to the USA where she studied History and ...
Literary figures
Charlie Muffin
Gender: Male
He was recruited by the British Intelligence Service already in the 1950s and since then has been a spy in a long suite of well-written, satirical novels by Brian Freemantle. But Charlie Muffin is no super-agent: he is shabby and looks so ordinary that nobody notices him. His bosses try to sacrifice him several times, and he is sometimes hunted just as eagerly by his own side as by the Russians.