Photo: Thomas Lekfeldt (2019) / Ritzau Scanpix / TT
Sample of authors
Hancock, Anne Mette
After having worked as a journalist and press & publicity manager, Danish Anne Mette Hancock made her international breakthrough as an author with her first crime novel, The Corpse Flower (2017, Ligblomsten). She was born and grew up in the small town of Gråsten in Jylland, Denmark, just north of the border with Germany, but when she was 19 she moved to the USA where she studied History and ...
Literary figures
John Bright
Gender: Male
He is a detective inspector in Kentish Town just outside London, where he gets to experience everything from a decomposing female corpse in a bathtub to gang-shootings. John Bright is small of stature, dark, likes to wear a shoddy leather jacket, and (according to author Maureen O’Brien) looks more like a criminal than a police officer. He can be very irritable, doesn’t like travelling and has a p...