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Cross, Amanda

Carolyn Gold Heilbrun was a successful American academic, feminist and author of a series of mystery novels published under the pen name Amanda Cross, which came to have a major influence on future women crime writers. She was born to a Jewish family in East Orange, New Jersey. The family moved to Manhattan in 1923 where Gold attended Birch Wathen School. She enrolled at Columbia University, New...

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Chris Norgren

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The friendly, correct and quiet Chris Norgren is a curator at the Seattle Art Museum, specialised in Baroque and Renaissance art. The tranquility of his work is, however, disturbed by art forgeries as well as murders – including that of his own boss who is found shot dead outside a whorehouse in Frankfurt. Author Aaron Elkins has been praised for his knowledge of art in the handful of books he h...

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