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Sample of authors
Tursten, Helene
Helene Tursten was born in Gothenburg, Sweden. It is also the setting she has chosen for Detective Inspector Irene Huss. Tursten now lives in Sunne, Värmland, a location she believes would have worked less well as a setting for her detective stories. The fact that she would become a detective writer was nothing that Helene Tursten went around dreaming about. Although her Swedish teacher at upper ...
Literary figures
Jude Nichols
Gender: Female
She is usually just called Jude: she rarely mentions her surname, and she says even less about her background. She is blonde and plump, and has gone through a whole row of lovers. Jude Nichols is also bohemian, noisy, full of vitality and works professionally as a healer using alternative methods in the village of Fethering. Together with her prim neighbour, Carole Seddon, she solves murder...