Santa Teresa (fictional city)
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Santa Teresa has been used by several authors as the name of an invented city.
Ross Macdonald
Santa Teresa was created by Ross Macdonald as a fictionalised version of Santa Barbara, California in his mystery The Moving Target (1949).[1] In his book The Underground Man (1971), he again uses Santa Teresa as the principal locale.
Sue Grafton
In the 1980s, the writer Sue Grafton began using a fictional Santa Teresa as the setting for her novels featuring her lead character Kinsey Millhone, a fictional female private investigator.[2] Millhone is the protagonist of Grafton's ongoing "alphabet mysteries" series of novels.[3][4] Grafton chose the setting as a tribute to Macdonald, an acknowledged influence.[5] In the Kinsey Millhone version, the town has a population of 85,000 and has a small airport.
Roberto Bolaño
Roberto Bolaño sets his novel 2666 (2004), whose central theme is the female homicides in Ciudad Juárez, in a northern Mexican city he calls Santa Teresa. This fictional city had already appeared in his earlier novel The Savage Detectives.
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