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Sample of authors
Whitaker, Chris
English author and former stock-broker, born and grew up in London. Nowadays he lives in Hertfordshire with his wife and three children, and works part-time as a librarian. As an author he is greatly influenced by his background. His parents had divorced, he was never interested in school, starting doing various jobs when he was still a teenager, and he earned money handing out advertising...
Literary figures
Karen Pirie
Gender: Female
She is an overweight workaholic, but also exceptionally skilful when it comes to investigating old, unsolved cases in police novels by Val McDermid. Karen Pirie is the head of the Historic Cases Unit with its head office in Fife in Scotland. Her private life is minimal – but includes a sweetheart, her colleague Phil Parhatka, and she mourns deeply when he is killed on duty. But she soon throws h...