Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2016)
Sample of authors
Lindstein, Mariette
Swedish author and lecturer, born as Mariette Westam in Halmstad, where she also grew up. As a child, she wrote ghost stories, and when she was in her teens she wrote short stories which she got published in magazines for teenagers. After finishing upper-secondary school, she became interested in scientology and moved to Malmö in 1978 together with her boyfriend to go on some of the courses ...
Literary figures
Syster Pelagia
Gender: Female
Around the year 1900 – according to author Boris Akunin (pseudonym för Grigory Chkhartishvili) – the nun, Sister Pelagia lived in a nunnery in the little Russian town of Zavolzhsk. She wore spectacles, was a bit clumsy and despite her red hair and her freckles it was easy to ignore her. But she was very intelligent and attentive, and solved some tricky crime cases to the great satisfaction of Bish...