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Sample of authors
Reichs, Kathy
Kathleen Joan Reichs, better known as Kathy Reichs, is a prominent anthropologist and professor at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of North Carolina, Charlotte. She is guest lecturer at several other universities, she is consulted by the United Nations and she is also the author of a series of international bestsellers about the forensic scientist and anthropologist...
Literary figures
Piet van der Valk
Gender: Male
An independent, eccentric and short-tempered detective superintendent with the police in Amsterdam, the main character in a suite of police novels by Englishman Nicolas Freeling. Piet van der Valk is arrogant, but also critical of society and empathetic. He is married to Arlette with whom he has two sons and an adopted daughter. He is killed during an investigation, and his wife takes over the...