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Portrait of Nevada Barr Photo: Oldbeeg (2006) CC BY 3.0

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Barr, Nevada

Nevada Barr is an author and artist born in Yerington, Nevada. In 1954, she moved with her family to Susanville in California where she grew up. Her parents ran a small airfield – both her parents as well as her sister were pilots – and Nevada Barr passed her flying certificate as a teenager. She attended Mercy High School at Red Bluff until 1969, and California Polytechnic State University in San...

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Alex McKnight

Gender: Male

When working as a policeman in Detroit he was shot and he still has a bullet in his body so he has to live a quiet life. He has inherited a holiday camp in the small town of Paradise in Michigan and sometimes reluctantly acts as a private detective in Steve Hamilton’s novels. Alex McKnight is of middle age, his hair is going grey and he lives alone. He is divorced, and his brief relationship w...

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