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Portrait of T. Jefferson Parker Photo: Mark Coggins (2008) CC BY 2.0

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Parker, T. Jefferson

T. Jefferson "Jeff" Parker is an American author of police procedural novels. He grew up in Orange County, mainly in the city of Tustin where the family moved in 1959. The "T" does not stand for anything; his mother just thought it would "look good on the presidential letterhead". The family often spent their holidays in Mexico, a country he keeps returning to again and again.
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Marcus Didius Falco

Gender: Male

Former Roman soldier who, after having fought in Britannia, settles in Rome as a ‘private informer’ at the end of the 1st century A.D. He marries Helena Justina, a senator’s daughter, and they build a family. In Lindsey Davis’ last (?) novel about him, he seems to die, but there is some uncertainty about that. His role as a problem-solver is then taken over by his adoptive daughter Flavia Albia.

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