Photo: Thomas Lekfeldt (2019) / Ritzau Scanpix / TT
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
Rene Shade
Gender: Male
According to author Daniel Woodrell, the fictive small town St. Bruno in Florida is riddled with corruption and filled with crime and misery. The Shade family live there, and several members are engaged is shady deals. Not, however, the middle brother Rene Shade – an ex-boxer, scarred and wide-shouldered with dark skin and blue eyes, and just as ruthlessly tough as the worst elements in town. He o...