Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2019)
Sample of authors
Mullen, Thomas
The American author Thomas Mullen was born on Rhode Island. He was educated at Portsmouth Abbey School in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, a secondary school inside a Benedictine monastery. Mullen was encouraged to write by his teachers, many of them monks and priests. So he applied to a course in Creative Writing at Oberlin College in Ohio, but wasn’t accepted, and instead graduated with a double m...
Literary figures
Karen Pirie
Gender: Female
She is an overweight workaholic, but also exceptionally skilful when it comes to investigating old, unsolved cases in police novels by Val McDermid. Karen Pirie is the head of the Historic Cases Unit with its head office in Fife in Scotland. Her private life is minimal – but includes a sweetheart, her colleague Phil Parhatka, and she mourns deeply when he is killed on duty. But she soon throws h...