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Maj Sjowall was a Swedish author of crime fiction who was best known with her collaborations with her late partner Per Wahloo. Her novels with Wahloo featured Swedish police detective Martin Beck. Their novel The Laughing Policeman won an Edgar Award for Best Novel and was also adapted to film (starring Walter Matthau). In addition […]
Per Wahloo (1926-1975) was a Swedish author of crime fiction. He is sometimes referred to as “Peter” in English. Per is best known for his work as one half of the writing team of Sjowall and Wahloo along with common law partner and fellow Marxist Maj Sjowall. Together, they wrote the Martin Beck series. Their […]
Inspector (or Commissaire) Jules Maigret is the lead character in a series of detective fiction novels by Belgian author Georges Simenon. Maigret is a French detective who works for the Paris Brigade Criminelle. He is best known for smoking his pipe, his detective style of mixing intuition with method and his love of alcohol. While […]
Georges Simenon (1903-1989) was a Belgian author of crime fiction, best known for his novels featuring his character Jules Maigret. Simenon is the author of close to 200 novels in his native language of French, most of which have been translated into English. Likewise, his novels have been adapted into nearly 200 different film adaptations. […]
Patrick Rothfuss is an American author of fantasy novels. He is the author of the Kingkiller Chronicle. Patrick earned his B.S. in English from University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point in 1999. During his time, he wrote for the campus newspaper The Pointer. He then got his M.A. from Washington State University. He then went back to […]
Patrick Lee is an American novelist of thriller novels. He writes the Travis Chase series. During his 20s, he was able to sell two screenplays in Los Angeles, but neither screenplay was produced. From there, he began to write fiction and was able to sell his first two novels to HarperCollins. Patrick lives in Michigan, […]
Brodie Farrell is the lead character in a series of crime fiction/mystery novels by British novelist Jo Bannister. Brodie Farrell is a single mom/woman sleuth who lives in the seaside town of Dimmock, England. She runs a searching business where she’s usually hired to hunt down old books and antiques, until she ends up starting […]
The Castlemere Mysteries series is a series of crime fiction/mystery novels by British author Jo Bannister. This series is set in Castlemere, England. The series follows investigators Inspector Liz Graham and Sgt. Cal Donovan.
Jo Bannister is a British author of crime fiction and mystery novels. Jo started out as a journalist and became the editor of the County Down Spectator before switching over to writing fiction. She writes the Castlemere Mysteries and Brodie Farrell series, among other series.
The Ghost Hunter Mysteries series is a cozy mystery series of novels by American author Victoria Laurie. The lead character in the series, M.J. Holliday, is a spiritual medium who lives a life full of adventure. She teams up with her friend Gilley Gillespie to run a ghosthunting business.