Photo: Dan Hansson / SvD / TT (2009)
Sample of authors
Ceder, Camilla
Camilla Ceder grew up in Olofstorp near Gothenburg. She studied social work and psychotherapy and now lives in Gothenburg where she works as a social worker and welfare officer.
Ceder wrote her first novel, Frozen Moment (2009, Fruset ögonblick), during periods when her youngest daughter was sleeping. It is set in the sparsely populated area of her native west Sweden among car mechanics, mink ...
Literary figures
Pharoah Love
Gender: Male
He must be one of the most unlikely police officers in crime literature: an Afro-American and openly homosexual hipster in New York who drives a Jaguar, uses a trendy slang and has a preference for young, sexy, white men. George Baxt wrote five novels about Pharoah (spelt like that!) Love, who is a handsome, ready-witted and jazz-loving ‘cool cat’ of early middle-age and who became a favourite wit...