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Sample of authors
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...
Literary figures
Anna Travis
Gender: Female
When readers get to meet police daughter Anna Travis for the first time, she has just become a police detective in London. She makes a rapid career together with her colleague James Langton. She is a young, competent woman with red hair and brown eyes, and likes to dress in a manner that could be seen as ‘somewhat risqué’ with low-cut necklines and short skirts. Since she went horseback riding a l...