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Sample of authors
Tvedt, Chris
The Norwegian author Baard Christian Tvedt was born in Bergen. He read architecture at the University of Birmingham, but dropped out after four years without graduating. He was instead awarded degrees in law and literature at the University of Bergen before working at the legal department of the Haugesund police department in 1987. He started his own legal practice the following year and...
Literary figures
Siv Dahlin
Gender: Female
After her divorce, assistant nurse Siv Dahlin leaves Gothenburg and works in lowly-paid jobs in rural areas in Sweden, including Dalarna. She is middle-aged and struggling with a tendency to put on weight. But she is also wise and observant, and when sudden deaths occur in the books by Aino Trosell, Siv Dahlin fortunately doesn’t always rely on the conclusions drawn by the authorities, but a...