Guillaume Musso 2014 Photo: Qsdfg75 CC BY-SA 4.0
Sample of authors
Musso, Guillaume
Frenchman who has written a number of thrillers which have been translated into many languages, and who is said to be the French-language author who has sold the most books during the 2000s. He was born in a family that was interested in literature: his mother was a librarian, and his brother Valentin Musso (born 1977) has written several crime novels. When he was only ten years old, Guillaume...
Literary figures
Beate Stein
Gender: Female
A young police detective in Dortmund, blond and with green eyes, and tough enough (or more than so) to survive and thrive in a male-dominated workplace. Beate Stein is a heterosexual feminist who prefers to put men behind bars rather than women, but she never cheats in her work. Through the books by Sabine Deitmer, she has become something of a figurehead for what is known as Frauen-Krimis.