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Sample of authors
Carlsson, Christoffer
Christoffer Carlsson grew up a rather lonely child in the small community of Skedala "in the gap between Halmstad and Simlångsdalen along national trunk road 25". His mother is a police clerk and his father a former car mechanic. Books were not common in the house when he was a boy. He discovered them on his own by means of the local mobile library. "No one else knows just how cool this is," he ...
Literary figures
Stephen Ramsey
Gender: Male
Detective Chief Inspector Ramsey is a bitter, middle-aged lone wolf, abandoned by his wife and not appreciated by his colleagues in the police force in Northumberland. In Ann Cleeves’ first books about him, he seems unacceptably glum and boring, but his personality develops and he turns out to be a good and empathetic listener – which also makes him a good murder investigator.