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Portrait of Louise Penny Photo: Ulf Andersen/Getty Images (2015)

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Penny, Louise

The Canadian author, Louise Penny, grew up in Toronto. She studied Journalism and worked as a TV and radio producer. She devoted herself to tough journalism and hard news, and said herself that she became "cynical, sarcastic, self-satisfied and supercilious". And an alcholic too. When she left journalism, there was above all one thing she took with her: the art of listening. "A good interviewer...

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Luke Pagan

Gender: Male

He was a quiet, somewhat naïve but ambitious police officer in England when the First World War started and he was transferred to a newly-created intelligence department thanks to his knowledge of languages. During the war, Luke Pagan – together with the jolly Joe Narrabone who doesn’t hesitate to make use of ‘unorthodox’ methods – struggles against spies and other enemies in three historical nove...

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