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Portrait image of Denise Mina Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2023)

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Mina, Denise

Denise Mina is a Scottish lawyer and author of crime novels. She was born in East Kilbride, Glasgow. Her father was an oil engineer who worked on platforms in the North Sea, which meant that the family often moved homes – they moved 21 times in 18 years. Mina grew up in Paris, The Hague, Bergen, London, Perth and Invergordon, but she spent most of her school holidays with her mother’s relatives in...

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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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