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Sample of authors
Mackintosh, Clare
English author Clare Mackintosh has been amply awarded at home and abroad, mainly for her crime novels. She was born in Bristol, and grew up in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, where she went to high school. She attended Royal Holloway University in Surrey, where she majored in management and French, and worked for a year as a business secretary in Paris at the end of the course. However, she wanted...
Literary figures
Gordianus
Gender: Female
He is called Gordianus the Finder, and is a private investigator in ancient Rome in the days of Julius Caesar. ‘Lawyers’ and orators like Cicero are some of the people who use his services in historical crime novels by Steven Saylor. Gordianus’ wife is the Egyptian Bethesda, previously his concubine whom he had bought as a slave. He lives in Rome until he inherits a farm in Etruria, but later move...