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- ↑ Brunsdale, Mitzi M. (2016). Encyclopedia of Nordic Crime Fiction: Works and Authors of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden Since 1967. McFarland. p. 415. ISBN 978-1-4766-2277-4.
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