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Portrait image of Donna Leon Photo: Ola Erikson / Forflex (2018)

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Leon, Donna

The American crime writer Donna Leon was born in Montclaire, New Jersey. At the age of twenty-three, she published her dissertation on Jane Austen. She has worked as a guide in Rome, copywriter in London and she has taught at American schools in Switzerland, China, Saudi Arabia and Iran. She has lived in Venice since the early eighties where she taught literature before becoming a successful...

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Bailey Ruth Raeburn

Gender: Female

Raeburn is among the more original literary detectives by virtue of being dead and buried. By heavenly authority, she is allowed to return to earth in order to correct some mistakes, above all exonerating innocent people who have been convicted of a crime, in a series of cheerful whodunits by Carolyn Hart. The fact that Raeburn is rather absent-minded and tend to forget the rules puts her in a...

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