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Reichs, Kathy

Kathleen Joan Reichs, better known as Kathy Reichs, is a prominent anthropologist and professor at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of North Carolina, Charlotte. She is guest lecturer at several other universities, she is consulted by the United Nations and she is also the author of a series of international bestsellers about the forensic scientist and anthropologist...

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Mma Makutsi

Gender: Female

She struggles with her poor skin and unflattering spectacles, but Mma Grace Makutsi has impressively high grades from her secretarial course and is a lady with skin on her nose and a sharp tongue. In Alexander McCall Smith’s suite of novels about The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency in Botswana’s capital Gaborone, Mma Makutsi is first employed, but after a while becomes a part-owner of the agency. S...

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