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Sample of authors
Flynn, Gillian
Already as a child, the American author and journalist Gillian Flynn was fascinated by horror and crime. She read books with violence, unexplained events and blood in the plot, and watched X rated films. When she was seven years old, she had already seen such films as Psycho, Alien and Bonnie and Clyde – with her father’s blessing. He was a professor and teacher of Film Studies, while her mot...
Literary figures
Gwenn Ramadge
Gender: Female
Attractive and intelligent, 32-year-old Gwenn Ramadge has a robust and secure background growing up in a middle-class family, but she decides to become a private detective. She starts the Hart Security and Investigations agency in Manhattan and (in novels by Lillian O’Donnell) she solves murder cases with predominantly female victims. She is helped by male police officers, who even become her b...