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Sample of authors
Sten, Viveca
Viveca Bergstedt Sten grew up in Stockholm. She spent her summer breaks on the island of Sandhamn in the Stockholm archipelago where her family has owned a house since 1917 when her great grandparents acquired the Lagerta family estate from the son of the master pilot. She read and wrote from an early age, she edited the school magazine and at university she contributed to the law students’ m...
Literary figures
Richard Thornhill
Gender: Male
An experienced police detective who works in the fictive town of Lydmouth in the middle of the last century. He is married to Edith and they have two children, but he is not really happy with either the town or the marriage. When Richard Thornhill meets journalist Jill Francis, they start a relationship, at the same time that they – each on their own, but sometimes together – investigate a ser...