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Tursten, Helene

Helene Tursten was born in Gothenburg, Sweden. It is also the setting she has chosen for Detective Inspector Irene Huss. Tursten now lives in Sunne, Värmland, a location she believes would have worked less well as a setting for her detective stories. The fact that she would become a detective writer was nothing that Helene Tursten went around dreaming about. Although her Swedish teacher at upper ...

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Lee Arnold

Gender: Male

A former professional soldier and police officer, who runs a detective agency in the East End of London together with his female assistant, Mumtaz Hakim, who is a Muslim. Lee Arnold is divorced, but doesn’t lack female companions. And besides, he is good at fighting when necessary, according to author Barbara Nadel. But he suffers from painful memories of a father with violent tendencies, a...

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