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Sample of authors
Brodrick, William
The British crime writer William Brodrick was born in Bolton, Lancashire, but when he was eleven years old the family emigrated to Vancouver in Canada. For a while, they also lived in Queensland, Australia. In both places, Brodrick attended Catholic schools, and since then the religion has played an important role in his life as well as his writing. He has dual citizenship, British and...
Literary figures
Eve Dallas
Gender: Female
A tall and slim police lieutenant in New York, the main character in a long suite of crime novels by J.D. Robb (pseudonym for Nora Roberts) set in the mid-21st century. Eve Dallas is of muscular build, has brown matted hair, whisky-coloured eyes and sharp facial features. She is tough and skilled in her job, and in her private life is married to businessman Roarke, who has a dubious background.