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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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Nameless

Gender: Male

Nobody, except possibly author Bill Pronzini, knows what the Nameless Detective is actually called – although on one occasion he is referred to as Bill. Little is said about the man himself, but Nameless (as he is called) is a middle-aged, former agent in military intelligence and police officer, who is a partner in a private detective agency. He has an on-and-off romance with Kerry, whom he e...

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