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Sample of authors
Dahl, Arne
For a long time, there was speculation as to who could lie behind the crime-writer pseudonym Arne Dahl. Considering the literary qualities and that it was obvious that he was a person who had read widely, a lot of people guessed that it must be an established author – or possibly a collective. With his series of novels about the so-called A-group, most readers wanted, at any rate, to place him i...
Literary figures
Gideon Oliver
Gender: Male
Oliver is an anthropologist with an international reputation as the ‘Skeleton detective’. His speciality is skeleton research, and the police in several countries make use of his knowledge when it comes to determining the age and sex of a skeleton and the time of death. He is a bachelor in the first novels, but subsequently marries Julie Tendler, who becomes an important assistant to him in the bo...