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Sample of authors
Deitmer, Sabine
The German author of crime novels Sabine Deitmar was born in Jena, Thüringen, and grew up in Düsseldorf. Deitmer became interested in crime fiction at an early age, and wrote her literature MA thesis on the work of Agatha Christie. After working as a teacher and translator in the UK, southern Germany and Berlin, she moved to the Ruhr district in the 1970s where she became a high school teacher. D...
Literary figures
Henrik Pettersson
Gender: Male
A 30-year-old small-time crook, slim, medium blond, unmarried and without empathy. He lives in Stockholm where he neglects several jobs and relaxes with drugs and sex until he gets into very serious trouble in a trilogy of crime novels by Anders de la Motte and is hunted and not only by the police. Henrik ‘HP’ Pettersson’s big sister Rebecca Normén is, however, a police officer and can help him wh...