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Sample of authors
Mackintosh, Clare
English author Clare Mackintosh has been amply awarded at home and abroad, mainly for her crime novels. She was born in Bristol, and grew up in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, where she went to high school. She attended Royal Holloway University in Surrey, where she majored in management and French, and worked for a year as a business secretary in Paris at the end of the course. However, she wanted...
Literary figures
Virgil Tibbs
Gender: Male
Since he is an Afro-American, he is arrested as a murder suspect in a little town in Mississippi by a racist sheriff – but he can identify himself as a police detective from Pasadena in California. Despite opposition from the town’s inhabitants, he helps the local police to solve the case. The sophisticated, low-key bachelor Virgil Tibbs returns later in a further half-dozen detective stories by J...