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Portrait of Martha Grimes Photo: Peter Peitsch (1992) / www.peitschphoto.com

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Grimes, Martha

Martha Grimes is an American author of detective stories born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her father, a lawyer, died when she was six years old and she and her brother grew up with their mother, a busy businesswoman who managed the Mountain Lake Hotel in West Maryland. After leaving high school she attended the University of Maryland, College Park, graduating with a BA in English in 1954 and an...

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Portrait image of Lars Kepler Foto: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2014)

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Kepler, Lars

Lars Kepler is the alias that the two writers and married couple Alexander Ahndoril and Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril use when they jointly write crime novels; the first was The Hypnotist (2009, Hypnotisören). It was supposed to be a secret as to who lay behind the pseudonym, but it was revealed already the same year. The book was given a major launch by the publishing house, but met with mixed ...

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