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Sample of authors
Sundstøl, Vidar
Vidar Sundstøl is a Norwegian author of crime fiction. He was born and raised at Vøllestad in the municipality of Drangedal, Telemark province. He attended Bostrak skole, Drangedal Ungdomsskole and Bø videregående skole, and he graduated from a two-term creative writing course at Høgskolen, Telemark, in 1987.
Sundstøl wanted to be an author from a young age, but had little success. In order to ma...
Literary figures
Peter Decker
Gender: Male
When he falls in love with the Jewish widow Rina Lazarus, the parents of the divorced single father and police inspector Peter Decker reveal that he is adopted, and that his biological parents were Jews. He changes religion, and can marry Rina. Together, they solve a row of criminal cases in Faye Kellerman’s books, where one of them – or sometimes both of them – plays the main role.