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Sample of authors
Hawkins, Paula
Paula Hawkins grew up in Salisbury, Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe). Her father was an economics professor and journalist. Paula spent the best part of her early childhood happily ignorant of the social injustices that were to lead up to the formation of Zimbabwe. She moved with her family to England in 1989, and after a few years her parents returned to Africa. Hawkins read political science,...
Literary figures
Jill Francis
Gender: Female
The young journalist, Jill Francis, leaves London after breaking up from a relationship with a married man. She gets a job in the fictive town of Lydmouth, where she investigates and writes about a row of crimes. She also meets police detective Richard Thornhill, and the two – reluctantly – start an affair even though he is a married father of two. Andrew Taylor has written the books about the cou...