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Marinina, Alexandra
Alexandra Marinina is the pseudonym of Marina Anatolyevna Alekseyeva, a Russian author born in Lviv, western Ukraine. Her father, who died in 1973, was a police officer and her mother a lawyer. When she was still young, the family moved to Leningrad (now St.Petersburg) and then to Moscow. She attended an English-language school in Leningrad, and the Rimsky-Korsakov conservatory in Moscow. She...

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Brooks, Kevin
Kevin Brooks was born in Exeter and has studied Philosophy and Psychology at Aston University in Birmingham and in London. Brooks has had many different types of jobs, for example as an assistant at a crematorium, at a petrol station, with the railways, the post, as a maintenance worker at London Zoo and as a municipal civil servant. But he has always felt that he really wanted to become a...