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Sample of authors
Kellerman, Faye
The American crime novelist Faye Marder Kellerman was born in St. Louis, Missouri. She moved with her family to Sherman Oaks in Los Angeles when she was five years old and attended Grant High School in Valley Glen, graduating in 1970. She went on to read mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), graduating with a BA in 1974. She met Jonathan Kellerman – later a major crime n...
Literary figures
Lindsay Gordon
Gender: Female
Lindsay Gordon is a hardboiled, cynical, lesbian crime reporter and the protagonist of half a dozen novels by Val McDermid. She is a Socialist, feminist jazz lover who tries to cut down on her cigarette and whiskey consumption. Her unorthodox methods are not always appreciated, especially not by the police, but that does not stop her from continuing to harass them.