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Sample of authors
Lindsay, Jeff
Jeff Lindsay’s real name is Jeffry P. Freundlich. He was born and grew up in Miami, with a father who was an art teacher. As a child, Lindsay was smaller than his schoolmates, was bullied and often involved in fights. This led him to start doing gym exercises but also meant he was a lonely child and he read a lot. During his university years in Vermont, he gained a black belt in karate and won a s...
Literary figures
Peter Diamond
Gender: Male
Peter Diamond is a police officer, formerly stationed in London, and now working in Bath in Somerset. He is 50+, a widower and overweight with abominable dietary habits – ‘an ambulatory heart attack’, according to his creator Peter Lovesey. Already in the early books, Diamond left the police service, but returned after a couple of novels. Through his stubbornness and the way he ignores orders, he...