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Portrait of Andrea Maria Schenkel Frankfurt Book Fair 2013
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Schenkel, Andrea Maria

The German author Andrea Maria Schenkel was born and raised in Regensburg. Her parents were civil servants. Her mother and, particularly, her grandmother, often spoke about the old days, which awakened Schenkel's interest in storytelling. As a child she wrote short tales, often on a "bloody" subject, although because she was left-handed she was put off from writing school assignments. After...

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Anna Travis

Gender: Female

When readers get to meet police daughter Anna Travis for the first time, she has just become a police detective in London. She makes a rapid career together with her colleague James Langton. She is a young, competent woman with red hair and brown eyes, and likes to dress in a manner that could be seen as ‘somewhat risqué’ with low-cut necklines and short skirts. Since she went horseback riding a l...

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