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Sample of authors
McKinty, Adrian
Adrian McKinty was born in Belfast and grew up in Carrickfergus, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, where he attended Victoria Primary School and Carrick Grammar School. He went on to read law at the University of Warwick and later politics and philosophy at Oxford where he met his future wife, Leah Garrett. After McKinty had graduated in 1993, he and his American wife moved to Harlem, New York,...
Literary figures
Knud Ejnarsen
Gender: Male
A boorish, prejudiced, aggressive and heavy-handed police detective in the Danish ‘Rejsehold’, a sort of Danish FBI. He would have been insufferable if he hadn’t functioned as an excellent complement to his colleague Jonas Mørck, who is his complete opposite. The dialogues between the two in Poul Ørum’s books are deeply human, and the well-built, somewhat overweight Knud Ejnarsen, who sweats quite...