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Portrait of Andrew Taylor Photo: Charlotte Graham/REX /TT (2015)

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Taylor, Andrew

The British author Andrew John Robert Taylor was born in Stevenage, Hertfordshire and grew up in East Anglia. He attended King’s School at Ely, Cambridgeshire, 1959–65 and Woodbridge School, Suffolk, 1965–69. He graduated from Emmanuel College, Cambridge, with an MA in English in 1973 and moved to London where he worked as a teacher, boat builder and freelance editor before going back to unive...

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Lars Martin Johansson

Gender: Male

Johansson is head of the Swedish Police. He first appears in Leif G. W. Persson’s first book Grisfesten and then returns in a string of novels by the author. He was previously married to Gunilla; they have two children together. After a few years he marries Pia who is 20 years younger. He is a passionate hunter and eventually dies of a stroke.

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