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Sample of authors
McKinty, Adrian
Adrian McKinty was born in Belfast and grew up in Carrickfergus, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, where he attended Victoria Primary School and Carrick Grammar School. He went on to read law at the University of Warwick and later politics and philosophy at Oxford where he met his future wife, Leah Garrett. After McKinty had graduated in 1993, he and his American wife moved to Harlem, New York,...
Literary figures
Aurelio Zen
Gender: Male
Detective Inspector Zen is a loner based in Rome, but he solves crime all over Italy. He may seem clumsy, but his determination and laissez-faire attitude to police protocol means that he is both successful and unpopular with his superiors. Aurelio Zen featured in one book by the British author Michael Dibdin, but he became so popular that Dibdin wrote another ten about him.