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Portrait image of Kevin Brooks Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2009)

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Brooks, Kevin

Kevin Brooks was born in Exeter and has studied Philosophy and Psychology at Aston University in Birmingham and in London. Brooks has had many different types of jobs, for example as an assistant at a crematorium, at a petrol station, with the railways, the post, as a maintenance worker at London Zoo and as a municipal civil servant. But he has always felt that he really wanted to become a...

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George Felse

Gender: Male

A central character in the Felse detective family, created by Ellis Peters (pseudonym for Edith Pargeter). George Felse is a hard-working and honest middle-aged police detective in the fictive town Comerford in Shropshire in England. But in many of the cases he solves, important (sometimes even major) roles are played by his wife – called Bunty and previously a famous concert singer – and his tee...

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