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Sample of authors
Kellerman, Jonathan
Jonathan Kellerman is an American author of thrillers. He was born in New York where he attended the Yeshiva of Central Queens (YCQ). He moved with his family to Los Angeles in 1959, where he attended high school and went on to read psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 1972. Kellerman paid for his studies by working as an...
Literary figures
Paddy Meehan
Gender: Female
When Patricia ‘Paddy’ Meehan gets a job with a newspaper in Glasgow, she is overjoyed. The job isn’t as much fun as she had hoped, but after having solved a murder case she is promoted to crime reporter – and can solve some more cases. Her family are poor, but she nevertheless manages to live a fairly pleasant private life, writes Denise Mina in her dark detective stories about Paddy.