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Hoag, Tami

Tami Hoag is an American author. She was born in Cresco, Iowa, and grew up in the small town of Harmony in southeast Minnesota. She wanted to be a writer from a young age, but unlike most American authors she never attended college. After high school she got a job at the subscription department of the Wisconsin newspaper The La Crosse Tribune. Before her breakthrough she worked, among other...

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Cliff Hardy

Gender: Male

Hard-boiled private detective in Sydney. Cliff Hardy was born in a poor working-class family, dropped out of his university studies and was an investigator for an insurance company before opening his own detective agency. Despite the fact that he usually dresses in shabby jeans and a leather jacket, he has many wealthy clients. He is a big man and in good condition, with coarse black hair and a...

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