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Portrait of Anne Mette Hancock Photo: Thomas Lekfeldt (2019) / Ritzau Scanpix / TT

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Hancock, Anne Mette

After having worked as a journalist and press & publicity manager, Danish Anne Mette Hancock made her international breakthrough as an author with her first crime novel, The Corpse Flower (2017, Ligblomsten). She was born and grew up in the small town of Gråsten in Jylland, Denmark, just north of the border with Germany, but when she was 19 she moved to the USA where she studied History and ...

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Perry (Peregrine) Trethowan

Gender: Male

He is from a wealthy, but eccentric, family, with which he has cut off contact. Now the slightly sardonic Scotland Yard Chief Inspector Peregrine ‘Perry’ Trethowan lives in London with his wife Jan and son Daniel. But when he investigates the murder of his father, he is forced to re-establish contact with the family, after which it plays a certain – and not particularly welcome – role in his life,...

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