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  • It is 68 years today since Patricia D. Cornwell was born.

    The American crime writer Patricia Cornwell was born in Miami, Florida, as Patricia Carroll Daniels. After her parents’ divorce she grew up with her mother in Montreat, North Carolina. She married her English professor after graduating from Davidson College and started to work as a journalist at the Charlotte Observer in 1979. She soon became the newspaper’s crime reporter. She has also worked as...

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Portrait of Stuart MacBride

MacBride, Stuart
1969 -

Stuart MacBride is a Scottish author of crime fiction. He was born in Dumbarton near Glasgow and grew up in Aberdeen where...

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Portrait image of Matti Yrjänä Joensuu

Joensuu, Matti Yrjänä
1948 - 2011

Matti Yrjänä Joensuu was a Finnish crime writer and criminal investigator. He was born and lived most of his life in H...

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Portrait of Megan Abbott

Abbott, Megan
1971 -

The American scholar and author Megan Abbott was born in Detroit and raised there and at Grosse Pointe, Michigan. She...

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Portrait of Martin Cruz Smith

Smith, Martin Cruz
1942 -

Martin Cruz Smith, born Martin William Smith, is an American author of thrillers born in Reading, Pennsylvania. His father...

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