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James, Peter

The British author and film producer Peter James was born in Hove and grew up in Brighton, Sussex. His British father, Jack Burnett James was an accountant, his Austrian mother Cornelia something of a celebrity as a glovemaker for the British royal family. The young James was a pupil at the Charterhouse boarding school in Godalming in Sussex, and he went on to study for two years at the...

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Logan McRae

Gender: Male

Author Stuart MacBride paints a picture of a dark and gloomy Aberdeen, where police detective Logan McRae investigates cases which include a lot of violence – sometimes against children. He, himself, has a background which is not entirely without blemishes, and sometimes he is wounded on duty or is transferred after breaking various rules. He is tired, often unshaven and a bit shabby-looking, b...

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