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Tessa Barding

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TESSA BARDING was born and raised southwest of Frankfurt, Germany. She loves stories of all kinds and genres and those that are still missing in her collection, she writes herself. She works in an admin position on management level and thus has the best seat in the house where study material and ideas are concerned. Tessa mostly writes in English but also works on finding her German storytelling voice. When she’s not certain if something sounds true, she reads her texts aloud to her guinea-pigs but strongly suspects them of being ignorant to her writer’s worries.

"The Case of the Misplaced Models" is her first novel. ...more

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Just a Touch Away

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Tote Seelen singen nicht. Der elfte Fall für das Sonderdezernat Q in Kopenhagen

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