A woman won a $1m literary prize. Three men turned up to collect the check.

Three men were "lured out of anonymity" to collect a $1m prize won by the latest ultraviolent thriller by "Carmen Mola", thereby revealing her as the writing team's pseudonym.

Their lead character in the Carmen Mola novels is detective Elena Blanco, a "peculiar and solitary woman, who loves grappa, karaoke, classic cars and sex in SUVs", according to publisher