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Sjöwall, Maj
Maj Sjöwall was a Swedish author, journalist and translator born in Stockholm. Having been married twice between 1955 and 1962, she lived with her partner, Per Wahlöö, between 1963 until his death in 1975.
Maj Sjöwall found international fame with the ten social critical police novels she wrote with her partner Per Wahlöö, each featuring the subtitle "Novel about a Crime". These books are extre...
Literary figures
George Palmer-Jones
Gender: Male
Mr Palmer-Jones is a retired English government civil servant and an enthusiastic amateur ornithologist who travels around Great Britain together with his wife to look at birds. It is a happy marriage, but Palmer-Jones has a problem with a certain inferiority complex and a fear of doing something wrong. It doesn’t, however, prevent him from solving murder mysteries in whodunits by Ann Cleeves.