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Persson, Leif G.W.

Leif Gustav Willy Persson is a Swedish author and criminologist who previously worked for the Swedish Police and the Ministry of Justice. Persson was appointed Professor of Criminology at the Swedish National Police Academy in 1991, a post he threatened to resign from in 2008. He was persuaded to continue working until 2012 when he retired at the age of 67. Persson has also participated in the...

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Karen Pirie

Gender: Female

She is an overweight workaholic, but also exceptionally skilful when it comes to investigating old, unsolved cases in police novels by Val McDermid. Karen Pirie is the head of the Historic Cases Unit with its head office in Fife in Scotland. Her private life is minimal – but includes a sweetheart, her colleague Phil Parhatka, and she mourns deeply when he is killed on duty. But she soon throws h...

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