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Cleeves, Ann

The British crime writer Ann Cleeves grew up in Herefordshire and North Devon, England. Her father was a teacher. After dropping out of Sussex University she worked as a childcare officer, an auxiliary coastguard and cook. She has supported women’s shelters and she has worked as a probation officer. She is also a filmmaker and she has organized book clubs in prisons. She is married to an o...

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David Audley

Gender: Male

He is a big man, looks like an academic, which he is too: David Audley has a Ph.D and is an historian specialising in the Middle Ages. He is also an analyst with the British counter intelligence services in a series of novels by Anthony Price. Already in the first book, Audley meets his future wife Faith. He finds it hard to obey orders and works more by intuition than with logic – but he s...

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