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Marklund, Liza

Elisabeth "Liza" Marklund is a successful author and journalist whose crime novels are widely translated and adapted for the screen. She was born the oldest of three children in the village of Pålmark, some 25 kilometres from Piteå in the north of Sweden. She left school at the age of sixteen and moved to Piteå where she worked as a waitress and cleaner. Some years later she travelled around the w...

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Michal Exner

Gender: Male

A young, handsome, always elegantly dressed detective captain with the Prague Police, he has a Ph.D in law, drives a Mercedes and has a comfortable bachelor pad to which he often invites his subordinates to drink coffee. Michal Exner has a sense of humour, appreciates beautiful women and good food: incidentally, he is a good cook himself. He is also the main character in just over a dozen crime...

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