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Bauer, Belinda

As a child, the British author Belinda Bauer spent ten years in South Africa during apartheid. Her father was a dentist there and Belinda dreamed of becoming a jockey. When she and her mother returned to Britain they left their comfortable lifestyle and started new, less prosperous, life in the West Country. Bauer went to the University of Cardiff and remained in Wales after graduation, working...

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Erlendur Sveinsson

Gender: Male

A detective inspector in Reykjavík, and the main character in a row of police novels by Arnaldur Indriðason. Erlendur – his surname, Sveinsson, is rarely named as is customary in Iceland – is a skilful and empathetic police officer, but rather tired and sometimes anxiety-ridden. One reason is that he left his family when the children were small, for reasons that he can’t himself remember. His ex-w...

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