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Davis, Lindsey
Lindsey Davis is a British crime writer born in Birmingham where she attended the King Edward VI High School for Girls 1960–67. Little is known about her private life, but there is a history of family tragedies. She graduated with a Master of Arts in English Literature from Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, in 1972 after which she worked as a civil servant until 1985. She is now a full-time author. S...
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Melo, Patrícia
The Brazilian dramaturge, journalist and author Patrícia Melo is an internationally renowned member of a generation of urban authors that emerged in Brazil in the 1990s. Her crime novels, informed by sex and violence and set in the favelas, Brazil’s urban slums, are especially acclaimed. She researches her stories by interviewing prison inmates and people who live in the slums.
Melo was born in A...