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Sample of authors
Hayder, Mo
The British thriller writer Mo Hayder, pen name for Clare Dunkel, grew up in Essex. She revolted against her academic family by leaving school at the age of fifteen. She, herself, for a long time considered it to be a considerably greater achievement to be arrested by the police than to gain a place at a university. Just before her sixteenth birthday, she left for London, and for many years...
Literary figures
Toby (Tobias) Peters
Gender: Male
He is actually called Tobias Leon Pevsner, and has been a police officer, which his brother Phil still is. He is a restless and violent man who is eventually fired, after which his wife leaves him. He becomes a security guard but is fired again, and now ends up a tired private detective for stars in Hollywood. According to Stuart M. Kaminsky, Toby Peters is middle-aged and shabby – and he can’t fo...