Photo: Mathew Peyton / Getty Images Entertainment (2010)
Sample of authors
Abrahams, Peter (f. 1947)
Peter Abrahams is an American author born in Boston, Massachusetts, where he also grew up. Summer holidays were spent in his parent’s cabin in Quebec, Canada. He earned his BA at Williams College at Williamstown, Massachusetts, in 1968; between 1968 and 1970 he was a harpoon fisherman in the Bahamas. He then worked at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBS) in Ottawa as a producer, among o...
Literary figures
Cato Isaksen
Gender: Male
Inspector Cato Isaksen is successful at work, but his private life is a mess. Unni Lindell’s books are more than detective stories, they also portray Isaksen’s struggle to get comfortable with his male identity and not to let his private life interfere too much with his job. It adds an extra dimension to the books.