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Sample of authors
Verdon, John
John Verdon is an American crime writer, born in Bronx, New York. He was educated at Regis High School and Fordham University in the same city, and subsequently worked in the advertising industry in Manhattan. Despite his considerable successes, he didn’t really like his job, so he retired at the age of 53. When his wife, Naomi, a teacher, retired a few years later, they moved to the countryside a...
Literary figures
Anastasia Kamenskaja
Gender: Female
The young, later middle-aged, Anastasia Kamenskaya is an analyst and investigator for the Moscow Police Department. She is linguistically gifted and beautiful, but is careless about her appearance and how she dresses. Her kind live-in partner (later her husband) looks after their home and accepts that she is often too tired for sex. She is also the main character in a long suite of novels by...