Foto: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2014)
Sample of authors
Kepler, Lars
Lars Kepler is the alias that the two writers and married couple Alexander Ahndoril and Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril use when they jointly write crime novels; the first was The Hypnotist (2009, Hypnotisören). It was supposed to be a secret as to who lay behind the pseudonym, but it was revealed already the same year. The book was given a major launch by the publishing house, but met with mixed ...
Literary figures
Dave (David) Brandstetter
Gender: Male
He is the most famous homosexual problem-solver in crime fiction thanks to the twelve novels that Joseph Hansen wrote about him. ‘Dave’ Brandstetter is a middle-aged investigator for an insurance company in Los Angeles, later becoming a freelancer. He is tough and worn out, and is endlessly sad since his boyfriend died. As opposed to many other literary figures, he never gets any older in the boo...