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Sample of authors
Mishani, Dror
Dror Mishani is an Israeli crime writer, born and raised in the Tel Aviv suburb of Holon. He is also a translator, literary scholar and a lecturer at Tel Aviv University, and he has written and produced TV series as well. He lives in Tel Aviv with his wife Marta, who is originally from Poland, and their two children. Marta Mishani holds a doctorate in Hebrew literature and lectured in Warsaw...
Literary figures
Harriet Martens
Gender: Female
Not without reason, she is called ‘The Hard Detective’, and Chief Inspector Harriet Martens in Greater Birchester is tough. She needs to be: she has to sort our various problems in her own police force as well as struggling against uncomprehending superiors. But her creator H.R.F. Keating lets her have a happy private life with her husband John – at any rate until their adult twin sons are the vic...