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Sample of authors
Marklund, Liza
Elisabeth "Liza" Marklund is a successful author and journalist whose crime novels are widely translated and adapted for the screen. She was born the oldest of three children in the village of Pålmark, some 25 kilometres from Piteå in the north of Sweden. She left school at the age of sixteen and moved to Piteå where she worked as a waitress and cleaner. Some years later she travelled around the w...
Literary figures
Toby (Tobias) Peters
Gender: Male
He is actually called Tobias Leon Pevsner, and has been a police officer, which his brother Phil still is. He is a restless and violent man who is eventually fired, after which his wife leaves him. He becomes a security guard but is fired again, and now ends up a tired private detective for stars in Hollywood. According to Stuart M. Kaminsky, Toby Peters is middle-aged and shabby – and he can’t fo...