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Hammesfahr, Petra
Petra Hammesfahr is an award-winning, bestselling German author of crime fiction. All her principal characters are women. She was born in Titz, Nordrhein-Westfalen, where she still lives, and grew up in nearby Kirchherten and Niederembt. She also lived in Kirch-Grottenherten and other places before she settled in Kerpen near Cologne in 1977. An avid reader as child, she joined a retail training...
Literary figures
Claude Warrington-Reeve
Gender: Male
An eminent defence lawyer in London, who is expert at getting wrongly suspected defendants freed in sensational cases. Claude Warrington-Reeve is middle-aged, energetic and strict, and a clever detective when it comes to finding clues which the police have missed. He does, however, get on well with Chief Inspector Steven Mitchell from Scotland Yard, and together they solve cases in three of...