

Denise Kuehl is a long-term resident of Japan, who just finished her MA Creative Writing Crime Fiction at the University of East Anglia. Set after the 2025 Osaka World Expo, Duality – A Dead Russian in Osaka is her first novel and it was shortlisted for the Yeovil Literary Price 2021. Denise has peeked behind the curtain of Japanese politeness and takes the reader along to the world she found there.