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Sample of authors
Wetering, Janwillem van de
Janwillem (actually Jan Willem) van de Wetering was a Dutch author born in Rotterdam to a merchant family. After graduating with a degree in business administration, van de Wetering travelled to Cape Town at the age of nineteen. He had been offered a job by one of his father’s business contacts, but he lost it when he refused to move to Johannesburg. He remained in South Africa for another six y...
Literary figures
Patrick Kenzie
Gender: Male
Patrick Kenzie is a private detective from Boston. He works with his childhood friend Angela ”Angie” Gennaro. He is tough and quick-witted, he has a black sense of humour and a weak spot for his married partner, which makes their relationship complicated. Dennis Lehane has written a string of much acclaimed hardboiled, urban, violent police novels about the pair.