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Portrait image of Ingar Johnsrud Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2016)

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Johnsrud, Ingar

The Norwegian author and journalist Ingar Johnsrud was born in Oslo and grew up in the village of Holmestrand just outside the Norwegian capital. After matriculation he studied Cinema and took a degree in Journalism. His first jobs as a journalist were with the Jarlsberg Avis and NRK, the Norwegian radio. In 2001 he started working at Verdens Gang (VG) where he mainly wrote about politics and...

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Sharon McCone

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She grew up in an area with social problems in the city of San Diego, but after some difficult teenage years she took a hold of her life, studied at university, became engaged in politics and eventually became a detective in a cooperative of lawyers. Author Marcia Muller describes Sharon McCone as dark and attractive, but also tough and stubborn – and she is regarded as the first hard-boiled f...

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