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Nilsonne, Åsa
Åsa Nilsonne is a Swedish psychiatrist, translator and crime writer. She was born in Stockholm, but as the daughter of a diplomat she spent much of her childhood abroad. Oslo, Beirut and Addis Ababa are some of the cities she has lived in. She lived in Ethiopia between the ages of nine and fifteen, and she still travels there frequently in real life as well as in her novels.
When she returned ...
Literary figures
Emmy Tibbett
Gender: Female
She is the wife of the English detective Henry Tibbett in a suite of whodunnits by Patricia Moyes. Emmy Tibbett was born in the Netherlands, and is a plump lady who hides stubbornness and will-power behind a jolly and friendly façade. She struggles hard to keep her weight down, and shares in her husband’s cases with empathy and curiosity. Quite often it is she who discovers decisive leads.