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Sample of authors
Tuomainen, Antti
A Finnish author and journalist who gained international attention with his crime novels. They are translated into a number of languages and have been praised as dark descriptions of Finnish society today – and for their humour! Tuomainen was born in Helsinki, and still lives there together with his wife. In the 1990s he became known within the advertising sector and as a copywriter, but he was i...
Literary figures
Dudley Smith
Gender: Male
Police officer in Los Angeles in four of James Ellroy’s novels. Dudley Smith was born in Ireland, he is tall and broad shouldered, and goes all in brown, one could say: he has brown hair cut very short, brown eyes and he usually wears a shabby, brown suit. Few police officers in crime fiction have been described as so unsympathetic: he is an egoistic and violent bully and, it turns out, a m...