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Sample of authors
Cleeves, Ann
The British crime writer Ann Cleeves grew up in Herefordshire and North Devon, England. Her father was a teacher. After dropping out of Sussex University she worked as a childcare officer, an auxiliary coastguard and cook. She has supported women’s shelters and she has worked as a probation officer. She is also a filmmaker and she has organized book clubs in prisons. She is married to an o...
Literary figures
Basil Willing
Gender: Male
Dr. Willing is the head of a psychiatric clinic in New York where he is often hired by, for example, the FBI to solve complex murder mysteries in thrillers and whodunits by Helen McCloy. Several are crime classics. Willing’s mother is Russian and his father American, and he has a man servant by the name of Juniper. After many years as a bachelor he eventually marries and Austrian woman, Gisela v...