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Sample of authors
Jungstedt, Mari
Mari Jungstedt is a Swedish journalist, broadcaster and author born in Stockholm. Her parents were very young when they started a family, and Mari is the youngest of her siblings. The family moved from a small flat in the southern suburb of Bandhagen to a terraced house in Upplands-Bro north of Stockholm. Her father was a computer engineer and her mother a housewife. That was the way things were...
Literary figures
Jack Frost
Gender: Male
Middle-aged, chain-smoking bachelor Willian ’Jack’ Frost is a detective inspector in the fictive English town of Denton. He has a slovenly appearance, is careless and uses rather coarse language – but he is an excellent criminal investigator who grumpily solves complicated cases. His creator, R.D. Wingfield, only wrote six novels about him, but these have provided the basis for radio drama and sev...