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Sample of authors
Parker, T. Jefferson
T. Jefferson "Jeff" Parker is an American author of police procedural novels. He grew up in Orange County, mainly in the city of Tustin where the family moved in 1959. The "T" does not stand for anything; his mother just thought it would "look good on the presidential letterhead". The family often spent their holidays in Mexico, a country he keeps returning to again and again.
Parker has always...
Literary figures
Cormoran Strike
Gender: Male
A one-legged British private detective and former Afghanistan veteran with an office in London. In the first novel about him by Robert Galbraith (pseudonym for J.K. Rowling), he is depressed with a messy private life and poor finances. The situation changes when he gets a new case and a new female assistant, Robin Ellacott. He is a large man with a high forehead, a broad nose, thick curly hair...