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Portrait of Peter May Photo: Guillem Lopez / Camera Press / TT (2016)

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May, Peter

Writer of crime novels and TV manuscripts who has received many prizes. He was born in Glasgow in Scotland, but has lived in France since 2001 and became a French citizen in 2016. Peter May started his schooling in 1956 at Carolside Primary School in Glasgow, and decided already then to become a writer. The idea was not encouraged by his teachers, and he was later thrown out of a school after a...

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Joe (Joseph) O'Loughlin

Gender: Male

He has had a successful career as a psychologist. But Joseph (Joe) O'Loughlin has reason to be depressed: he has separated from his wife Julianne, who later dies, and he suffers from Parkinson’s disease. Nor is he handsome: he has a long, but pear-shaped nose, watery brown eyes and a pale complexion. He also becomes involved in several cases of severe crime in novels by Michael Robotham.

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