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Portrait of Daniel Woodrell Foto: Ulf Andersen/Getty Images (2007)

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Woodrell, Daniel

Daniell Woodrell is an American author born in Springfield, a town situated in the Missouri Ozarks, a plateau and mountain range on the border between Missouri, Arkansas and Oklahoma. When he was one year old, the family moved to St. Charles near St. Louis, Missouri, where he grew up. When his father got a new job fourteen years later, they transferred to Overland Park in Kansas City. Woodrell...

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Gunnarstranda

Gender: Male

Detective Inspector Gunnarstranda – his first name is never mentioned – is a middle-aged man who smokes too much. He works for the Oslo police and solves crime in a string of books by the Norwegian author Kjell Ola Dahl. Gunnarstranda can be cynical and disillusioned, but he is also kind and helpful. He general works alongside his seargeant, Frank Frølich.

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