Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2008)
Sample of authors
Nesbø, Jo
The Norwegian, Jo Nesbø, is one of Norway’s most appreciated and successful crime writers. He was born in Oslo as Jon Nesbø, but when he was 16 he formally changed his first name to Jo, which was what his parents had originally thought of calling him. Already when he was very small, the family moved to Molde where he grew up and attended school. His mother was a librarian and read a lot, his fat...
Literary figures
David Audley
Gender: Male
He is a big man, looks like an academic, which he is too: David Audley has a Ph.D and is an historian specialising in the Middle Ages. He is also an analyst with the British counter intelligence services in a series of novels by Anthony Price. Already in the first book, Audley meets his future wife Faith. He finds it hard to obey orders and works more by intuition than with logic – but he s...