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Sample of authors
Reichs, Kathy
Kathleen Joan Reichs, better known as Kathy Reichs, is a prominent anthropologist and professor at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of North Carolina, Charlotte. She is guest lecturer at several other universities, she is consulted by the United Nations and she is also the author of a series of international bestsellers about the forensic scientist and anthropologist...
Literary figures
Alex Morrow
Gender: Female
Morrow is a working class detective from Glasgow. She is the mother of twins and the protagonist in a series of tartan noir books by Denise Mina. Morrow is not always very forthcoming or correct, but she struggles to combine her job with being a mother and against misogynous bosses and colleagues in a city characterised by increasing class differences and violent crime.