Photo: Jonas Ekströmer / TT (2009)
Sample of authors
Grytten, Frode
Frode Grytten is a Norwegian author and journalist born and raised in Odda, a small industrial community in southwest Norway. His mother was a hairdresser and his father a furniture salesman. He now lives with his wife and children in Bergen where he moved as a student. He began to write at an early age and has, among other things, worked for the Bergen’s Tidende newspaper and the Magasinet I...
Literary figures
Goldy Bear Schulz
Gender: Female
She is 30-something years old and divorced; her ex-husband is usually referred to as ‘The Jerk’. Gertrude ‘Goldy’ Bear is blond, short in stature and a bit plump. To support herself and her 11-year-old son, she starts a catering firm in Colorado, but time after time is disturbed by murders, says Diane Mott Davidson. Luckily, Goldy is assisted by police officer Tom Schulz, whom she eventually marri...