Karin Fossum

Karin Fossum (née Mathisen) is a Norwegian author of crime fiction,often known there as the "Norwegian queen of crime". She lives in Oslo. Fossum was initially a poet, with her first collection published in 1974 when she was just 20. It won the Tarjei Vesaas' Debutant Prize. She is the author of the internationally successful Inspector Konrad Sejer series of crime novels, which have been translated into over 16 languages. She won the Glass key award for her novel "Don't Look Back", which also won the Riverton Prize, and she was shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger in 2005 for "Calling Out For You".

Series:
* Inspector Konrad Sejer
* Eddie Feber

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Kim Newman

Note: This author also writes under the pseudonym of Jack Yeovil.
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José Carlos Somoza

José Carlos Somoza is a Spanish author born in Havana, Cuba. In 1960 his family moved to Spain after being exiled for political reasons. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in psychiatry, but he gave up medicine in order to be a full-time writer in 1994.
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Hilde Vandermeeren

Hilde Vandermeeren (°1970) woont met haar gezin in Torhout. Ze studeerde psychologie in Leuven en gaf tien jaar les in het secundair onderwijs. Haar eerste jeugdboek verscheen in 2001. Ondertussen staan er al meer dan 40 kinder- en jeugdboeken op haar boekenplank. Ruim dertig titels werden vertaald in het Deens, Duits, Spaans, Frans, Koreaans en Chinees. Ze won diverse literaire prijzen waaronder een Zilveren Griffel (2005), twee Vlag en Wimpels (2006 en 2013), een White Raven (2007) en een Boekenwelp (2007).
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Åke Edwardson is a Swedish author of detective fiction, and a professor at Gothenburg University, the city where many of his Inspector Winter novels are set. Edwardson has had many jobs, including a journalist and press officer for the United Nations, and his crime novels have made him a three-time winner of the Swedish Crime Writers' Award for best crime novel. His first novel to be translated into English, in 2005, was Sun and Shadow. The second, Never End, followed in 2006.

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Marita de Sterck

Marita de Sterck is een Vlaamse schrijfster.

Marita de Sterck is a Flemish writer.
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Katie Coyle

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Anne Holt

Anne Holt was born in Larvik, grew up in Lillestrøm and Tromsø, and moved to Oslo in 1978. She graduated with a law degree from the University of Bergen in 1986, and went on to work for The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) and then the Oslo Police Department, earning her right to practice as a lawyer in Norway. In 1990 she returned to NRK, where she worked one year as a journalist and anchor woman for the news program Dagsrevyen.

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Gunnar Staalesen

Gunnar Staalesen is a Norwegian writer. Staalesen has a cand.philol degree from Universitetet i Bergen and he has worked at Den Nationale Scene, the main theater in Bergen.
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Håkan Nesser

Håkan Nesser is a Swedish author and teacher who has written a number of successful crime fiction novels. He has won Best Swedish Crime Novel Award three times, and his novel Carambole won the Glass Key award in 2000. His books have been translated from Swedish into numerous languages.

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Liza Marklund

Scandinavia’s undisputed queen of crime fiction, Liza Marklund is the No. 1 international bestselling author of the Annika Bengtzon series.

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Sandro Veronesi

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Amy Gentry

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Aslak Nore

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Kjersti Anfinnsen

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