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Sample of authors
Kellerman, Jonathan
Jonathan Kellerman is an American author of thrillers. He was born in New York where he attended the Yeshiva of Central Queens (YCQ). He moved with his family to Los Angeles in 1959, where he attended high school and went on to read psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 1972. Kellerman paid for his studies by working as an...
Literary figures
Barbara Havers
Gender: Female
Contrary to many other female police officers in crime fiction Barbara Havers is not a good-looking woman. Her creator, Elizabeth George, claims she made her deliberately unattractive and unkempt. Havers has cooperation issues and she is moody, stubborn and temperamental. Yet she has a functional working relationship with her complete opposite, the well bred, neatly turned out Detective...