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Westlake, Donald E.
Donald Edwin Westlake was an American author of Irish descent born in Brooklyn, New York. As a small boy, he moved with his family to Yonkers and later to Albany, New York, where he grew up. He enrolled at the State University of New York, Pittsburgh, in 1949, but dropped out the following year. He attempted to study at two more universities, but only for short periods.
Westlake had a couple of...
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Läckberg, Camilla
Detective-story writer Camilla Läckberg has mainly killed people off in the village of Fjällbacka, on the west coast of Sweden, where she was born and grew up and feels at home. Her father was a policeman for a short period before he had to retire for health reasons, and from him she inherited her interest in reading and writing as well as a large collection of detective stories. She likes to d...
