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Sample of authors
Melo, Patrícia
The Brazilian dramaturge, journalist and author Patrícia Melo is an internationally renowned member of a generation of urban authors that emerged in Brazil in the 1990s. Her crime novels, informed by sex and violence and set in the favelas, Brazil’s urban slums, are especially acclaimed. She researches her stories by interviewing prison inmates and people who live in the slums.
Melo was born in A...
Literary figures
Jack Frost
Gender: Male
Middle-aged, chain-smoking bachelor Willian ’Jack’ Frost is a detective inspector in the fictive English town of Denton. He has a slovenly appearance, is careless and uses rather coarse language – but he is an excellent criminal investigator who grumpily solves complicated cases. His creator, R.D. Wingfield, only wrote six novels about him, but these have provided the basis for radio drama and sev...