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Sample of authors
Holt, Anne
Anne Holt is a Norwegian crime writer born in Larvik. She read law at the University of Bergen, graduating in 1986. She then worked as a news anchor for the Norwegian broadcasting corporation news programme Dagsrevyen and as a news reporter. She has also worked for the Oslo Police Department (1988–1990). In 1991, she opened her own law firm. When Thorbjørn Jagland, the then prime minister, pr...
Literary figures
Maria Wern
Gender: Female
Maria Wern is a young sergeant who balances crime investigations with family life, including an insufferable husband. She later moves to the island of Gotland where she continues to solve crime. The author, Anna Jansson, has also written a number of young adult detective novels that feature Wern’s son, Emil.