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Schulman, Ninni
The Swedish author Ninni Schulman was born as Karin Jessica Christina Olofsdotter-Jansson at Rämmen in Värmland province, and she grew up in nearby Lesjöfors. She attended upper-secondary school at Spångbergagymnasiet in Filipstad until 1992. She then moved to Uppsala where she lived while attending the journalism programme at Bona Folkhögskola in Motala between 1993 and 1995. After a few years at...
Literary figures
Max Van Larsen
Gender: Male
A depressed, middle-aged detective with a guilty conscience who works in the New York police section for missing persons. Max Van Larsen’s wife and 13-year-old son have died in a traffic accident, and he discovers that he has not known them well enough to be able to mourn them. He is, however, consoled when he meets the cheerful author Sylvia Plotkin, and together they solve the weird cases in t...