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Portrait image of Ingrid Hedström Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex

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Hedström, Ingrid

The Swedish journalist and author Ingrid Hedström were born in Söderhamn in the central Swedish province of Hälsingland, and then moved to Avesta in nearby Dalarna when she was five years old. She is said to be one of the 1960’s so-called "welfare-state princesses", meaning that she was the first in her family to graduate from high school. She completed her final exam at Avesta Grammar School in 1...

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Luke Pagan

Gender: Male

He was a quiet, somewhat naïve but ambitious police officer in England when the First World War started and he was transferred to a newly-created intelligence department thanks to his knowledge of languages. During the war, Luke Pagan – together with the jolly Joe Narrabone who doesn’t hesitate to make use of ‘unorthodox’ methods – struggles against spies and other enemies in three historical nove...

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