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Sample of authors
Bolton, Sharon
The English author Sharon Bolton was born in Blackburn, Lancashire, as the oldest of three girls. She grew up in Darwen and attended Darwen Moorland High School. She decided that she wanted to pursue a career in dancing or acting, so she read drama at Loughborough University in Leicestershire. She later worked in PR and advertising before reading business administration at Warwick University,...
Literary figures
Tom Barnaby
Gender: Male
Detective Chief Inspector Thomas Geoffrey ‘Tom’ Barnaby has become internationally famous via a number of ‘whodunit’ police novels, written by Caroline Graham, but primarily thanks to the TV series Midsomer Murders. He is a calm, patient, methodical and conscientious police investigator in the fictive town of Causton where he lives with his wife Joyce and daughter Cully. His right-hand man is DS G...