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Marklund, Liza
Elisabeth "Liza" Marklund is a successful author and journalist whose crime novels are widely translated and adapted for the screen. She was born the oldest of three children in the village of Pålmark, some 25 kilometres from Piteå in the north of Sweden. She left school at the age of sixteen and moved to Piteå where she worked as a waitress and cleaner. Some years later she travelled around the w...
Literary figures
Maisie Dobbs
Gender: Female
Young, brave and intelligent private detective who started to work as a domestic when she was only 13 years old. Maisie Dobbs had a benevolent female employer, and got to study nursing and psychology. She fell in love with a doctor who was killed in the First World War, and in 1929 she started her own detective agency. Jacqueline Winspear has written more than a dozen books about her.