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Sample of authors
Jungstedt, Mari
Mari Jungstedt is a Swedish journalist, broadcaster and author born in Stockholm. Her parents were very young when they started a family, and Mari is the youngest of her siblings. The family moved from a small flat in the southern suburb of Bandhagen to a terraced house in Upplands-Bro north of Stockholm. Her father was a computer engineer and her mother a housewife. That was the way things were...
Literary figures
Richard Jury
Gender: Male
A melancholic and reasonably gloomy commissioner: this is explained by the author Martha Grimes by the fact that Richard Jury - the first name is rarely mentioned - was orphaned during the Second World War and had an unhappy upbringing. He is in the younger middle age, has auburn hair and a winning smile. He shys away from women and relationships, but likes children and gets along well with them.