Photo: Maggie Hardie/REX / TT (2004)
Sample of authors
Melo, Patrícia
The Brazilian dramaturge, journalist and author Patrícia Melo is an internationally renowned member of a generation of urban authors that emerged in Brazil in the 1990s. Her crime novels, informed by sex and violence and set in the favelas, Brazil’s urban slums, are especially acclaimed. She researches her stories by interviewing prison inmates and people who live in the slums.
Melo was born in A...
Literary figures
Ephraim Peck
Gender: Male
The very friendly and honest retired judge Ephraim Peabody Peck lives in the fictive Sac Prairie in Wisconsin. He usually wears a large overcoat and a wide-rimmed hat and carries an umbrella. He can look slightly confused and lost, but one shouldn’t be fooled by his appearance, author August Derleth assures us. Peck has helped the police to solve many strange murder cases.