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Sample of authors
Hammesfahr, Petra
Petra Hammesfahr is an award-winning, bestselling German author of crime fiction. All her principal characters are women. She was born in Titz, Nordrhein-Westfalen, where she still lives, and grew up in nearby Kirchherten and Niederembt. She also lived in Kirch-Grottenherten and other places before she settled in Kerpen near Cologne in 1977. An avid reader as child, she joined a retail training...
Literary figures
Leonard Pine
Gender: Male
Afro-American, physically fit, homosexual Vietnam veteran with an explosive temper. Leonard Pine grew up in the home of an uncle who disapproved of him because of his sexual orientation. He is good friends with his total opposite, the calm, pacifistic Hap Collins with roots in the American working class, and they work together for a detective agency in a long suite of stories filled with...