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Portrait image of Anders De la Motte Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2016)

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De la Motte, Anders

The Swedish author, and former police officer and security director, Anders de la Motte was born in Billesholm in north-western Skåne. He completed his schooling with a three-year Economics study course at the Tycho Brahe grammar school in Helsingborg, matriculating in 1990. The following year, he started his military service which included time in the military police, and he later became an ...

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Jules-Joseph Maigret

Gender: Male

French detective inspector and something of an icon within the genre. Maigret was a farmer’s boy who became a cop by chance and quickly earned himself an office at the Paris police headquarters at Quai des Orfèvres. Georges Simenon’s books do not only follow the inspector’s investigations, but also his private life, including a happy, but childless, marriage.

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