Sample of authors
Truc, Olivier
The French author Olivier Truc is a journalist and war correspondent. Truc has been working for Le Monde in Scandinavia and the Baltic states since 1994. He lives in Stockholm with his Swedish wife.
During a visit to his wife’s native Västerbotten in the north of Sweden he became interested in the Sami people and began to research their history. After a few non-fiction books and television do...
Literary figures
Peter Diamond
Gender: Male
Peter Diamond is a police officer, formerly stationed in London, and now working in Bath in Somerset. He is 50+, a widower and overweight with abominable dietary habits – ‘an ambulatory heart attack’, according to his creator Peter Lovesey. Already in the early books, Diamond left the police service, but returned after a couple of novels. Through his stubbornness and the way he ignores orders, he...