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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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Toby (Tobias) Peters

Gender: Male

He is actually called Tobias Leon Pevsner, and has been a police officer, which his brother Phil still is. He is a restless and violent man who is eventually fired, after which his wife leaves him. He becomes a security guard but is fired again, and now ends up a tired private detective for stars in Hollywood. According to Stuart M. Kaminsky, Toby Peters is middle-aged and shabby – and he can’t fo...

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