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Portrait of Carol O'Connell Photo: Louis Monier/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images (1999)

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O'Connell, Carol

Carol O’Connel is an American author and artist best known for her books about the ruthless hardboiled detective Kathleen "Kathy" Mallory.
O’Connel published her first novel at the age of forty-seven and has tried to stay out of the limelight. She offers little information about her person, and not much is known about her early years. She was born in New York and grew up in New York, New Jer...

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Gereon Rath

Gender: Male

A police detective and war veteran in Köln, who after a fatal mistake in his work in 1929 is transferred to Berlin. According to author Volker Kutscher, Gereon Rath is between 30 and 40 years old, slim, skilled, stubborn and a morphine addict on account of traumatic war experiences. In Berlin he meets police stenographer Charlotte ‘Charly’ Ritter; they start a relationship, get married and build a...

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