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Gercke, Doris
Doris Gercke is a German author of crime fiction born in Greifswald in the former East Germany. She grew up in a working class family that fled to Hamburg in 1949, where she lived until her death.. Not having the means to attend university, she worked as an administrator and was married in 1957 when she was twenty years old. In 1959, after the birth of her second child, she gave up work and...
Literary figures
Stephen Ramsey
Gender: Male
Detective Chief Inspector Ramsey is a bitter, middle-aged lone wolf, abandoned by his wife and not appreciated by his colleagues in the police force in Northumberland. In Ann Cleeves’ first books about him, he seems unacceptably glum and boring, but his personality develops and he turns out to be a good and empathetic listener – which also makes him a good murder investigator.