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Portrait of Claudia Piñeiro Photo: Dan Hansson / SvD / TT (2012)

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Piñeiro, Claudia

Argentinian author born in Burzaco, Buenos Aires. Claudia Piñeiro started reading social sciences, but she switched to economics and became a chartered accountant instead. During a business trip in 1999 she spotted a small advert for a novel writing competition announced by the Tusquets publishing house, and since she had by then grown tired of her job she immediately decided to take time off to ...

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Harry Bosch

Gender: Male

He is actually called Hieronymus Bosch, but calls himself – for understandable reasons – Harry. His mother was a prostitute and was murdered; his father is a well-known lawyer whom he first met as an adult. Harry Bosch was a soldier and then became a police officer, mainly in Los Angeles. And he was also the main character in a whole row of detective stories by Michael Connelly.

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