Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2008)
Sample of authors
Nesbø, Jo
The Norwegian, Jo Nesbø, is one of Norway’s most appreciated and successful crime writers. He was born in Oslo as Jon Nesbø, but when he was 16 he formally changed his first name to Jo, which was what his parents had originally thought of calling him. Already when he was very small, the family moved to Molde where he grew up and attended school. His mother was a librarian and read a lot, his fat...
Literary figures
Touie (Toussaint) Moore
Gender: Male
He is considered the first credible African-American private detective in crime fiction. Toussaint “Touie” Moore, however, left the profession at his own request to become a mail carrier, but was forced for financial reasons to take a new assignment as a detective when his wife Frances became pregnant. He is depicted by his creator Ed Lacy (pseudonym for Leonard S. Zinberg) as a pipe smoker and a...