Foto: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2014)
Sample of authors
Kepler, Lars
Lars Kepler is the alias that the two writers and married couple Alexander Ahndoril and Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril use when they jointly write crime novels; the first was The Hypnotist (2009, Hypnotisören). It was supposed to be a secret as to who lay behind the pseudonym, but it was revealed already the same year. The book was given a major launch by the publishing house, but met with mixed ...
Literary figures
Patrik Hedström
Gender: Male
He is employed as a detective inspector in Tanumshede, western Sweden, but spends most of his time in Fjällbacka, where he lives and – together with his wife, author Erica Falck – solves a row of murder cases in the books by Camilla Läckberg. Patrik Hedstrom is partly based on Läckberg’s first husband, and is described as a ‘completely ordinary guy’, but he is a skilled crime investigator with qui...