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Sample of authors
Hoag, Tami
Tami Hoag is an American author. She was born in Cresco, Iowa, and grew up in the small town of Harmony in southeast Minnesota. She wanted to be a writer from a young age, but unlike most American authors she never attended college. After high school she got a job at the subscription department of the Wisconsin newspaper The La Crosse Tribune. Before her breakthrough she worked, among other...
Literary figures
Michael McLoughlin
Gender: Male
An older, somewhat overweight police officer in Dublin, who after his retirement has bought a house in a bathing resort outside the town. He is single – but not uninterested in women – and his immediate family is small: his mother, who lives in an old people’s home, and a sister. His father, who was also a police officer, was killed on duty. As a pensioner, Michael McLoughlin is reluctantly invol...