Sample of authors
Barclay, Linwood
Canadian-American author, born in Darien, Connecticut in the USA. Just before his fourth birthday, the family moved to Toronto in Canada. Linwood Barclay’s father was an illustrator and graphic artist mainly for the car industry but when this to an increasing degree started using photographs, in 1966 – following the advice of his wife – he bought a camping site with a small cabin village in Bobca...
Literary figures
Gwenn Ramadge
Gender: Female
Attractive and intelligent, 32-year-old Gwenn Ramadge has a robust and secure background growing up in a middle-class family, but she decides to become a private detective. She starts the Hart Security and Investigations agency in Manhattan and (in novels by Lillian O’Donnell) she solves murder cases with predominantly female victims. She is helped by male police officers, who even become her b...