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Sample of authors
Lemaitre, Pierre
Pierre Lemaitre is one of France’s foremost noir novelists. The rather limited work of the award-winning author has been translated into some 20 languages.
Little is known about his private life. He was born in Paris and grew up in Aubervilliers and Drancy, Île-de-France. Lemaitre is a trained psychologist, but mainly taught French and American literature at adult education and librarian co...
Literary figures
Tony Mendez
Gender: Male
Newly graduated from an FBI school, the young Tony Mendez is employed as sheriff in the little town of Oak Knoll in California. He has a number of murder cases to solve, and he makes enthusiastic use of the modern investigative methods he has learnt. The job is harder than Tony Mendez thought, but luckily he is given some help by a former teacher, Vince Leone, and Vince’s wife, lawyer Anne, in t...