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Portrait image of Paula Hawkins Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2015)

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Hawkins, Paula

Paula Hawkins grew up in Salisbury, Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe). Her father was an economics professor and journalist. Paula spent the best part of her early childhood happily ignorant of the social injustices that were to lead up to the formation of Zimbabwe. She moved with her family to England in 1989, and after a few years her parents returned to Africa. Hawkins read political science,...

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Gwenn Ramadge

Gender: Female

Attractive and intelligent, 32-year-old Gwenn Ramadge has a robust and secure background growing up in a middle-class family, but she decides to become a private detective. She starts the Hart Security and Investigations agency in Manhattan and (in novels by Lillian O’Donnell) she solves murder cases with predominantly female victims. She is helped by male police officers, who even become her b...

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