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Sample of authors
Slaughter, Karin
The American author Karin Slaughter was born and raised in Jonesboro, a small town near Atlanta, Georgia where her father worked as a car salesman. She went to college for two years without graduating and then ran a small design company before she made her debut as a crime novelist in 2001.
Her first book, Blindsighted, was translated into some thirty languages and became a major bestseller in...
Literary figures
Matthew Hope
Gender: Male
Lawyer Matthew Hope moves with his wife Susan and daughter Joanna from Chicago to Calusa in Florida to work with commercial law for a small law firm. But nothing goes as he wished: thanks to his detective talents, he unwillingly becomes a leading criminal lawyer and his marriage ends in divorce, as we read in the books by Ed McBain (pseudonym for Evan Hunter).