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Sample of authors
Tuomainen, Antti
A Finnish author and journalist who gained international attention with his crime novels. They are translated into a number of languages and have been praised as dark descriptions of Finnish society today – and for their humour! Tuomainen was born in Helsinki, and still lives there together with his wife. In the 1990s he became known within the advertising sector and as a copywriter, but he was i...
Literary figures
Kate (Katarina) Martinelli
Gender: Female
Author Laurie R. King has graced her police detective Katarina Martinelli with two nicknames: she is called Kate by her friends and herself, but Casey by her colleagues in the San Francisco police department. She is around 30 years old, dark, in good physical shape and 167 cm tall. She is lesbian, and lives in a complicated relationship with her partner Leonora ‘Lee’ Cooper. Kate usually works tog...