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Portrait of Jo Spain Photo: wenn.com / TT (2018)

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Spain, Jo

The Irish author Joanne ‘Jo’ Spain was born into a working-class family in the little notorious residential district of Belcamp, close to Coolock in Dublin. Her father, who was close to her even though he was an alcoholic, died when she was young. She attended St. John of God’s School in Artane in northern Dublin, and subsequently studied Politics and Philosophy at Trinity College in the city. Thi...

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Henrik Pettersson

Gender: Male

A 30-year-old small-time crook, slim, medium blond, unmarried and without empathy. He lives in Stockholm where he neglects several jobs and relaxes with drugs and sex until he gets into very serious trouble in a trilogy of crime novels by Anders de la Motte and is hunted and not only by the police. Henrik ‘HP’ Pettersson’s big sister Rebecca Normén is, however, a police officer and can help him wh...

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