Sample of authors
Clark, Mary Higgins
Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins Clark Conheeney, who publishes her work as Mary Higgins Clark, was born in New York on December 24, 1927. Both her parents were of Irish descent. They owned an Irish pub in New York, and her father worked around the clock during the depression in the 1930s to keep ends meet. He died in his sleep in 1939, leaving his wife, two sons and his only daughter in a destitute...
Literary figures
Kate Burrows
Gender: Female
Skilled and hard-skinned police detective in Grantley, Yorkshire. Kate Burrows is respected by her colleagues, but has problems when she falls in love with gangster Patrick Kelly and they move in together. She is pretty, with brown hair, brown eyes and a slim body with long legs. Author Martina Cole lets her grow old in the books: in the last one, she has retired but is still used by her former...