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Connelly, Michael

Michael Connelly is an American author of crime fiction born in Philadelphia. At the age of twelve, he moved with his family to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where he attended St. Thomas Aquinas High School. He began to study for a building construction major at the University of Florida, Gainesville, but did not do as well as he expected. A keen admirer of Raymond Chandler, he decided to do a...

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Kai Bugge

Gender: Male

A middle-aged Norwegian psychoanalyst, whom author Bernhard Borge (pseudonym for André Bjerke) partly based on his friend, psychoanalyst Trygve Braatøy. Kai Bugge is calm and logical and is said to be known for his book Das Verbrechen als Erlösung. He is considered to be the first ‘psychological’ problem-solver in Nordic crime fiction, and the three books about him are regarded as classics.

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