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Sample of authors
Hayder, Mo
The British thriller writer Mo Hayder, pen name for Clare Dunkel, grew up in Essex. She revolted against her academic family by leaving school at the age of fifteen. She, herself, for a long time considered it to be a considerably greater achievement to be arrested by the police than to gain a place at a university. Just before her sixteenth birthday, she left for London, and for many years...
Literary figures
Craig Kennedy
Gender: Male
Forensic expert, Craig Kennedy, is a professor of Chemistry at Columbia University in New York, but also works as a private detective and consultant for the police and others. Arthur B. Reeve has written a lot about his cases, but little about the man himself. Kennedy has clear-cut features and is unmarried. He shares a house with journalist Walter Jameson, who is the first-person narrator in...