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Portrait image of Richard Osman Photo: David Hartley/REX / TT (2016)

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Osman, Richard

Richard Osman is an English comedian, TV-personality and programme presenter who made his international writing breakthrough with his first novel, the detective story The Thursday Murder Club (2020). The film rights were sold quickly, and there were immediate plans for a TV-series.
He was born in Billericay in Essex, but grew up in Cuckfield, close to Haywards Heath in West Sussex. When he was...

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Lorraine Page

Gender: Female

Police officer in Los Angeles who breaks down when a colleague is killed. Lorraine Page starts to drink, is dismissed from the force, her husband leaves her, she loses custody of her daughters and becomes homeless. After having been involved in the hunt for a serial murderer, she does, however, manage to make her way back, stops drinking and becomes a successful private detective. According to...

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