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Portrait image of Martin Holmén Photo: Gary Doak (2019) /Eyevine / TT

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Holmén, Martin

Swedish author and teacher, was born in Eskilstuna and grew up in Krogstorp outside Sölvesborg, where he attended school. In 1993, he moved to Stockholm, and has since lived there with the exception of a couple of years as a student in Umeå. After working for a while, including in the restaurant branch, he studied at university in Stockholm and Umeå. He gained a master’s degree and subsequently wo...

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Hugh Westlake

Gender: Male

When he was only 31 years old, general practitioner Dr Hugh Westlake becomes a widower and is left alone with his little daughter Dawn. He settled in a little town in eastern USA, opened a medical practice which wasn’t particularly successful and succeeds time after time in becoming involved in strange murder cases with elements of pure horror. He solves these with Dawn’s help, we are told by Jon...

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