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Stein, Jesper

As a journalist, Stein was known by his full name, Jesper Stein Larsen. For his literary career, he used the shortened version Jesper Stein – a name which became firmly associated with successful detective fiction during the 2010s. His father was the nationally well-known writer and critic Finn Stein Larsen (1929–2013). Jesper Stein was born in Aarhus, Denmark, where he also grew up and went to sc...

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Gavin Troy

Gender: Male

Troy is a detective in the fictive English county of Midsomer, and Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby’s right hand. In Caroline Graham’s novel, Tory is a clever and intelligent police officer, but his prejudices – he is, for example, a homophobe – and rather abrupt manner speak against him. In the TV series Midsomer Murders, his personality has been ‘corrected’ and he is decidedly more sympathetic, and i...

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