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Sample of authors
Pears, Iain
Iain Pears is a British author, art historian and journalist. He was born in Coventry where his father was a company director and his mother a teacher. Pears attended Warwick School and Wadham College, Oxford, graduating with an MA in 1979. He did post-graduate studies at Wolfson College, Oxford, and earned his PhD in 1982. Pears was a reporter for Channel 4, the BBC, and the German channel ZDF...
Literary figures
Tom Reynolds
Gender: Male
A friendly, calm and humorous police detective in Dublin, who leads the investigations into brutal murders in books by Jo Spain. He is between 40 and 50 years old, with a slightly crooked nose and black hair going grey, and he is happily married to Louise: they have a daughter together, Maria, who is not entirely without problems. Tom Reynolds’ personality is based on the author’s husband, Mar...