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Sample of authors
Hiaasen, Carl
Carl Hiaasen is an American journalist and author of thrillers. He was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and is of Norwegian descent. He was a great nature lover even as a child, and became an investigative journalist in order to look into the exploitation of the Florida wetlands. His father gave him a typewriter when he was six years old; at high school he co-founded the satirical magazine More...
Literary figures
Nikki Liska
Gender: Female
Female police officer in Minneapolis, divorced with two teenaged sons, and together with colleague Sam Kovac the main character in a suite of crime novels by Tami Hoag. Nikki Liska has a sharp tongue, is tough and has quite a sense of humour. She gets on well with the older Kovac, and they miss each other – so they continue to cooperate – when she is moved to a cold-case group to be able to have m...