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Ahndoril were in fact the ones behind the pseudonym. This was shortly thereafter confirmed by the couple's publishing house through a press release. That the two created a third, fictional author to represent them can be considered a natural extension of their early individual careers, wherein they both experimented with the blurring of the line between fiction and reality, and incorporating the author as a subject. Most well-known is the example of how
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as the person behind the pseudonym Lars Kepler, but this was quickly denied by both
Mankell himself and Bonniers, the Swedish publisher of Lars Kepler's books. Several others were also suspected of being the author in question. In August 2009, Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet revealed that the spouses
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