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Portrait of Volker Kutscher Photo: Simone Padovani/Awakening/Getty Images (2017)

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Kutscher, Volker

The German author Volker Kutscher was born in Lindlar and grew up in Wipperfürth near Köln (Cologne). He studied Germanic Languages, Philosophy and History in Köln and Wupperthal. Parallel with his work as a journalist, in the 1990s he started to write detective stories, at first together with another author, Christian Schnalke. Kutscher is now a full-time writer and lives in Köln.
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Asey Mayo

Gender: Male

Asa ‘Asey’ Mayo is a former seaman and racing driver who has settled in Cape Cod in Massachusetts, where he occupies himself with a bit of everything while he solves crimes in a couple of dozen books by Phoebe Atwood Taylor. He is tall and thin, weather-beaten, humorous and always walks leaning forward. He is single, but spends a lot of time with his gossiping cousin, Jennie, and her husband.

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