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Sample of authors
Rosenhayn, Paul
German journalist and internationally acclaimed author of detective stories, best known for his more than forty screenplays
Paul Rosenhayn was born in Hamburg. His father was a captain in the merchant navy, and the family often moved. He attended school in England for several years and completed his education in Germany. He enrolled at law school, but after the first semester he decided he...
Literary figures
Vera Stanhope
Gender: Female
An eccentric, middle-aged, controversial detective chief inspector in Northumberland and in a series of police novels by Ann Cleeves. Stanhope is a grim lone wolf and workaholic, in part because as a child she was subjected to sexual abuse by an acquaintance of her single father. She still lives in her childhood home, drives her father’s old Landrover and solves murder cases in her own very s...