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Jungstedt, Mari

Mari Jungstedt is a Swedish journalist, broadcaster and author born in Stockholm. Her parents were very young when they started a family, and Mari is the youngest of her siblings. The family moved from a small flat in the southern suburb of Bandhagen to a terraced house in Upplands-Bro north of Stockholm. Her father was a computer engineer and her mother a housewife. That was the way things were...

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Rinus de Gier

Gender: Male

He is a youthful and athletic police detective, a convinced bachelor despite the fact that he likes women and has many female ‘friends’. He comes from Rotterdam, but works in Amsterdam, where he partners his phlegmatic older colleague Henk Grijpstra in police novels by Janwillem van de Wetering. Rinus de Gier is a dreamer, very fond of cats, and an amateur musician – he often has a flute in his po...

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