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Sample of authors
Sigurðardóttir, Yrsa
The Icelandic author and civil engineer Yrsa Sigurðardóttir grew up in Reykjavik. She now lives in the suburb of Seltjarnarnes. She has two children born in the eighties and nineties with her husband, whom she has known since high school. After graduating from the University of Iceland (Háskóli Íslands) in 1988, Sigurðardóttir has worked as a civil engineer, apart from a period in the 1980s when s...
Literary figures
Christopher McKee
Gender: Male
Middle-aged detective inspector in Manhattan of Scottish ancestry, and the main character in a long row of police novels by Helen Reilly. He is tall with a large head, dark hair and brown eyes. Christopher Mckee – called the Scotsman in the force – is known for being tough but just. He is a gruff, sometimes hard, interrogator, but can be both friendly and humorous. He is single – and has little in...