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Portrait image of Sara Blædel Photo: Fredrik Sandberg (2012) / TT

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Blædel, Sara

The Danish journalist and author Sara Blædel spent her early life in the Copenhagen district of Østerbro. When she was about eleven years old, the family moved to their former holiday home near Hvalsø in central Jutland where she grew up an only child. Her father was the well-known journalist Leif Blædel and her mother the actor Annegrethe Nissen. As a young girl, Sara Blædel loved horses, and she...

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Alvirah Meehan

Gender: Female

Meehan is a cleaner who wins 40 million dollars on the lottery, which allows her to work as an amateur detective. Alvirah is the protagonist in a string of novels by Mary Higgins Clark, some written in collaboration with her daughter Carol. All the stories are set around Christmas and feature her other protagonist, Regan Reilly.

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