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Cook, Robin (f. 1940)
American doctor, businessman and author, who has written a long row of thriller-like medical crime novels, many of which have ended high up on the American bestseller lists. Robert Brian Cook was born in Brooklyn, New York, and spent his first years in Queens in the same city. When he was eight years old, the family moved to Leonia, New Jersey, where he grew up. His father was an artist, his...

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Mankell, Henning
Henning Georg Mankell was a Swedish playwright and author. From the 1990s onwards, he won international renown for his crime novels. When Mankell was christened in Stockholm, he was given the name of his grandfather, the composer and critic Henning Mankell (1868–1930). His mother left when he was one year old, and the following year his father moved with his children to Sveg in the province of H...