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Sample of authors
George, Elizabeth
Susan Elizabeth George was born in Warren, Ohio. Her family moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1950, and Elizabeth George attended school there. She soon developed a taste for reading, and when she was seven years old she began to write little stories. After attending the University of California, Riverside, graduating with a major in English, she taught English between 1974 and 1987 at...
Literary figures
Monika Pedersen
Gender: Female
There is a shortage of staff which means that the young, ambitious police constable Monika Pedersen gets a temporary position on the crime squad in Stockholm. She is single, likes her work, and eventually gets a permanent position. Later, she is overworked and seriously injured doing her job, and spends her free time investigating the circumstances around her mother’s death. Åsa Nilsonne has wr...