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Deaver, Jeffery

Jeffery Deaver is an American author of mystery novels born in Glen Ellyn near Chicago, Illinois. Having been born to a family with cultural interests, he enjoyed music and books as a child. When he was eleven years old, he began to write a novel that was left unfinished, he edited the high school literary magazine and contributed to the school magazine. He later read journalism at the...

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Jill Francis

Gender: Female

The young journalist, Jill Francis, leaves London after breaking up from a relationship with a married man. She gets a job in the fictive town of Lydmouth, where she investigates and writes about a row of crimes. She also meets police detective Richard Thornhill, and the two – reluctantly – start an affair even though he is a married father of two. Andrew Taylor has written the books about the cou...

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