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Liffner, Eva-Marie
Eva-Marie Liffner is a Swedish author and journalist born in Gothenburg and raised in Frölunda in the 1950s, where she inherited her mother’s love of books. When she finished school she worked at Swedish Customs and then at the Gothenburg public library. Before becoming a journalist and literary critic she studied archaeology and intellectual history with a view to post-graduate studies. She has b...
Literary figures
Paddy Meehan
Gender: Female
When Patricia ‘Paddy’ Meehan gets a job with a newspaper in Glasgow, she is overjoyed. The job isn’t as much fun as she had hoped, but after having solved a murder case she is promoted to crime reporter – and can solve some more cases. Her family are poor, but she nevertheless manages to live a fairly pleasant private life, writes Denise Mina in her dark detective stories about Paddy.