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Portrait of Peter May Photo: Guillem Lopez / Camera Press / TT (2016)

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May, Peter

Writer of crime novels and TV manuscripts who received many prizes. He was born in Glasgow in Scotland, but lived in France since 2001 and became a French citizen in 2016. Peter May started his schooling in 1956 at Carolside Primary School in Glasgow, and decided already then to become a writer. The idea was not encouraged by his teachers, and he was later thrown out of a school after a conflict...

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Rina Lazarus

Gender: Female

26 years old, the orthodox Jewess Rina Lazarus is a widow and the single parent of two small boys. In connection with a murder case, she gets to know police officer Peter Decker, and after he has changed religion, she marries him and they have a daughter. Author Faye Kellerman also lets them solve a series of criminal cases, where they take turns at playing the main role, and sometimes share it.

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