Sample of authors
Hermanson, Marie
Marie Hermanson was born and grew up in Sävedalen outside Gothenburg. Her parents were teachers. After completing her Journalism studies in 1977 as well as university courses in Sociology, Literature and Childrens’ Liteature, she worked for a while as a newspaper journalist, including a period at Arbetet.
She has also taught Creative Writing, written textbooks and been a scriptwriter for radio a...
Literary figures
Tony Hill
Gender: Male
Anthony ‘Tony’ Hill is a qualified psychologist as well as a skilful ‘profiler’ often used by the police in Bradford in a suite of crime novels by Val McDermid. He works with Detective Chief Inspector Carol Jordan, and they have a complicated private relationship. Hill is sickly, sexually dysfunctional and there are details that mention an unhappy and mentally stressful childhood and youth.