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Lagercrantz, David

David Lagercrantz is a Swedish author and journalist born in Solna and brought up there and in Drottningholm, both near Stockholm. He attended the Kungsholmen upper-secondary school and read philosophy and theology at university before transferring to the University of Gothenburg Department of Journalism, Media and Communication in the 1980s. After graduation he worked, among other things, at...

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Alex McKnight

Gender: Male

When working as a policeman in Detroit he was shot and he still has a bullet in his body so he has to live a quiet life. He has inherited a holiday camp in the small town of Paradise in Michigan and sometimes reluctantly acts as a private detective in Steve Hamilton’s novels. Alex McKnight is of middle age, his hair is going grey and he lives alone. He is divorced, and his brief relationship w...

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