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Carofiglio, Gianrico
Gianrico Carofiglio is an Italian novelist and former judge born and raised in Bari, Apulia. After having passed his law degree, Carofiglio began to work as a prosecutor in Bari in 1986, and he soon became involved in fighting organised crime. He was part of a group of magistrates that tried to take down the local mafia, Sacra Corona, in Bari. It led to the incarceration of a large number of its...
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Temple, Peter
Peter Temple was born in South Africa, but left the country in 1980, deeply sickened by the white regime’s apartheid policy. He finally settled down in Australia, where he became an esteemed and prize-winning writer of detective stories. The Temple family were English and went to South Africa to spread the message of the Anglican church. Peter grew up in an English-speaking home, but spoke A...
