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Herron, Mick

The British crime writer Mick Herron was born and raised in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He read literature at Balliol College, Oxford, where he now lives after having worked for many years at a legal journal in London. He became a full-time writer in 2017. Herron does not generally speak about his private life but has revealed that he is unmarried and that he is not living with his partner Jo. Before...

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Chris Norgren

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The friendly, correct and quiet Chris Norgren is a curator at the Seattle Art Museum, specialised in Baroque and Renaissance art. The tranquility of his work is, however, disturbed by art forgeries as well as murders – including that of his own boss who is found shot dead outside a whorehouse in Frankfurt. Author Aaron Elkins has been praised for his knowledge of art in the handful of books he h...

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