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
Syster Pelagia
Gender: Female
Around the year 1900 – according to author Boris Akunin (pseudonym för Grigory Chkhartishvili) – the nun, Sister Pelagia lived in a nunnery in the little Russian town of Zavolzhsk. She wore spectacles, was a bit clumsy and despite her red hair and her freckles it was easy to ignore her. But she was very intelligent and attentive, and solved some tricky crime cases to the great satisfaction of Bish...