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James, Peter

The British author and film producer Peter James was born in Hove and grew up in Brighton, Sussex. His British father, Jack Burnett James was an accountant, his Austrian mother Cornelia something of a celebrity as a glovemaker for the British royal family. The young James was a pupil at the Charterhouse boarding school in Godalming in Sussex, and he went on to study for two years at the...

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Chris Norgren

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The friendly, correct and quiet Chris Norgren is a curator at the Seattle Art Museum, specialised in Baroque and Renaissance art. The tranquility of his work is, however, disturbed by art forgeries as well as murders – including that of his own boss who is found shot dead outside a whorehouse in Frankfurt. Author Aaron Elkins has been praised for his knowledge of art in the handful of books he h...

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