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Schlink, Bernhard

The German lawyer and author Bernhard Schlink was born in Grossdornberg (now part of the city of Bielefeld) and grew up in Heidelberg. His mother was Swiss and his father German, a professor of theology at the University of Heidelberg. As a young man Schlink was interested in literature; he wanted either to become an author or to study history and sociology. But he followed his father's advice...

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Alix London

Gender: Female

Her world fell apart when her father, an internationally renowned art expert, was jailed for fraud. The young Alix recovered, trained as a curator and made herself a career in Seattle while she got back into contact with her father. She is now solving art crime with the help of him and the FBI in a series of novels by the husband and wife team Aaron and Charlotte Elkins.

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