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Sample of authors
Hellström, Börge
Börge Hellström was a former criminal turned author. After a tough childhood he became an alcoholic and a drug addict, and eventually he ended up in prison. But against all odds he managed to leave his old life behind after twenty-four years and founded the organization Criminals Return Into Society (CRIS). He was a trained therapist and worked with young people involved in crime and addiction. B...
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Paretsky, Sara
The American author Sara Paretsky was a leading proponent – alongside Marcia Muller, Sue Grafton and others – during a period in the 1980s and ‘90s when crime fiction by and about women came to the fore in the United States. She was born in Ames, Iowa, but moved with her family to Kansas in 1951 where they were harassed by the authorities on account of being Jewish. Her scientist father was a stri...
