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Sample of authors
McDermid, Val
Val McDermid is a Scottish crime writer born in Kirkcaldy, Fife. She attended Kirkcaldy High School where she was among a group of pupils that participated in a controversial project for especially talented students based on IQ tests.
When she was seventeen, she was the first student from a Scottish state school to be admitted to St. Hilda’s College, Oxford, where she graduated with a Bachelor o...
Literary figures
Bella Block
Gender: Female
The cynical and often depressed Bella Block began her carrier at the Hamburg police. She later retires in order to set up as a private detective. Apart from working she enjoys vodka, books and casual sex. Doris Gercke’s novels about Block have won cult status in Germany.