Photo: Aftonbladet (publ. 1954) / TT
Sample of authors
Lang, Maria
Maria Lang is the pen name of the teacher and head mistress Dagmar (Maria) Lange, one of Sweden’s most popular, but also most criticised, crime novelists. Lange and Stieg Trenter dominated the Swedish crime fiction scene in the 1950s and ‘60s. In the media they were referred to as King Stieg and Queen Maria. Dagmar Lange was born in Västerås. The family moved to Lindesberg in 1915 where her fathe...
Literary figures
Hack Bohannon
Gender: Male
A tall, slim private eye and former police officer with black hair like a native American, and who runs a horse ranch in California. His great sorrow is his wife, Linda, who is in a coma at a care home after being brutally raped. In the books by Joseph Hanse, Hack Bohannan is always dressed in jeans and cowboy boots, and he avoids contact with women. In general, he prefers animals rather than...