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Nilsonne, Åsa

Åsa Nilsonne is a Swedish psychiatrist, translator and crime writer. She was born in Stockholm, but as the daughter of a diplomat she spent much of her childhood abroad. Oslo, Beirut and Addis Ababa are some of the cities she has lived in. She lived in Ethiopia between the ages of nine and fifteen, and she still travels there frequently in real life as well as in her novels.
When she returned ...

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Blotto (Devereux) Lyminster

Gender: Male

The honourable Devereux Lyminster, better known as ‘Blotto’, comes from a respected noble family. He is well-built, strong and handsome, a famous cricketer and has a brain like a hen. When it comes to solving murder cases in a series of farcical crime novels by Simon Brett, which are set in the 1920s, he thus often plays the role of a stupid ‘Watson’ to his beautiful, smart sister Honoria, called...

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