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Sample of authors
Slaughter, Karin
The American author Karin Slaughter was born and raised in Jonesboro, a small town near Atlanta, Georgia where her father worked as a car salesman. She went to college for two years without graduating and then ran a small design company before she made her debut as a crime novelist in 2001.
Her first book, Blindsighted, was translated into some thirty languages and became a major bestseller in...
Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2008)
Sample of authors
Nesbø, Jo
The Norwegian, Jo Nesbø, is one of Norway’s most appreciated and successful crime writers. He was born in Oslo as Jon Nesbø, but when he was 16 he formally changed his first name to Jo, which was what his parents had originally thought of calling him. Already when he was very small, the family moved to Molde where he grew up and attended school. His mother was a librarian and read a lot, his fat...
