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Sample of authors
Temple, Peter
Peter Temple was born in South Africa, but left the country in 1980, deeply sickened by the white regime’s apartheid policy. He finally settled down in Australia, where he became an esteemed and prize-winning writer of detective stories. The Temple family were English and went to South Africa to spread the message of the Anglican church. Peter grew up in an English-speaking home, but spoke A...
Literary figures
Bo (Barbara) Bradley
Gender: Female
With the mano-depressive legally-trained investigator Barbara ‘Bo’ Bradley in San Diego, author Abigail Padgett created one of the weirder detectives in literature. His good deeds include supporting children who have been badly treated. He is handsome, has red hair and green eyes, but struggles with the fact that he is beginning to be overweight and the memory of when his sister, Laurie, com...