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Sample of authors
Alsterdal, Tove
Swedish author, dramatist and journalist Tove Alsterdal has her roots in Norrbotten and Värmland. Her mother, sociologist and author Elsa Bolin came from Tornedalen, while her father, journalist and embassy press secretary Alvar Alsterdal was from Alster, close to Karlstad. She was born in Malmö, but grew up mainly in Jakobsberg and Umeå. She worked as a mental health nurse for some years before s...
Literary figures
Mac
Gender: Male
After a childhood in Chicago’s slum district, Mac – which is the only name he is given in Thomas B. Dewey’s hard-boiled novels – becomes a police officer in that same city. However, he solved a crime that gangster bosses and corrupt powerful figures did not want solving, so he was sacked. Now he is a private detective, but still had friends in the police department. He is a skilled investigator, h...