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Portrait image of Jane Harper Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2017)

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Harper, Jane

Jane Harper was born in Manchester, England. When she was eight years old she moved with her family to Australia. For six years, she lived in Boronia, Victoria, and during this period she became an Australian citizen. She returned to the UK aged 14 with her family and lived for a while in Hampshire before taking a degree in literature and history at the University of Kent. She then embarked on a...

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A Danish journalist and private detective, whose name is never actually mentioned in the 13 books about him that Dan Turèll has written. The Nameless is an ordinary, rather worn-out gentleman who lives on his own in a boring flat and comes across crimes in shabby settings, inhabited by odd people. He solves cases with the help of Superintendent Ehlers – and the beautiful lawyer Gitte Bristol, wh...

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