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Sample of authors
Goddard, Robert
Robert Goddard is a popular, much-translated and lauded British thriller writer with an unusual and highly personal style. His novels are multifaceted, but they mainly concern historical descriptions – or stories about events with roots way back in time – with intricate plots on many layers. They are usually based on psychological tension, but quite often have elements of, for example, a who...
Literary figures
Emma Graham
Gender: Female
She is only twelve years old, but she already works as a waitress in her mother’s old and now rather shabby hotel in the countryside near La Porte in Maryland, and also as a youth reporter for a little local newspaper. But above all, the sharp and humorous – but also very manipulative – Emma Graham is interested in criminal cases, usually old ones. And she solves them in four detective stories for...