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Rankin, Ian

The Scottish crime writer Ian James Rankin was born in the coal mining town of Cardenden, Fife, where his father owned a grocery store. His mother worked in a school canteen. There were few books at home, and Rankin began to visit his local library as a child and began to write short stories as a teenager. He attended Denend Primary School in Cardendan and later Auchterderran Junior High at...

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Bella Block

Gender: Female

The cynical and often depressed Bella Block began her carrier at the Hamburg police. She later retires in order to set up as a private detective. Apart from working she enjoys vodka, books and casual sex. Doris Gercke’s novels about Block have won cult status in Germany.

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