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Sample of authors
Melo, Patrícia
The Brazilian dramaturge, journalist and author Patrícia Melo is an internationally renowned member of a generation of urban authors that emerged in Brazil in the 1990s. Her crime novels, informed by sex and violence and set in the favelas, Brazil’s urban slums, are especially acclaimed. She researches her stories by interviewing prison inmates and people who live in the slums.
Melo was born in A...
Literary figures
Jack Tallon
Gender: Male
Police officer Jack Tallon is utterly bored by Pasadena, where he works, and gratefully accepts the offer of the job of police chief in little Whitewater. The very bigoted small-town population are wary of a stranger, and his is suspected – among other things – of rape. In three books by John Ball, Jack Tallon struggles not only to solve crimes, but also to deal with the suspicious attitude of the...