Minette walters author biography for book

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Minette walters author biography for book

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The Turn of Midnight Black Death, 2 3. Acid Row 3. The Echo 3. The Breaker 3. Novel Ladies: Stephanie's Reading Log for Mystery Lovers! Her father died from kidney failure in While raising Walters and her two brothers, Colleen Jebb painted miniatures from photographs to supplement the family's income. During a gap year between school and Durham University, Walters volunteered in Israel with The Bridge in Britain, working on a kibbutz and in a delinquent boys' home in Jerusalem.

Minette met her husband Alec Walters while she was at Durham and they married in They have two sons, Roland and Philip. She supplemented her salary by writing romantic novelettes, short stories, and serials in her spare time. The romantic novelettes were written in approximately two weeks and published under a pseudonym that remains a secret.

Her first full-length novel, The Ice Housewas published in Within four months, it had won the Crime Writers' Association John Creasey award for best first novel [ 3 ] and had been snapped up by 11 foreign publishers. Walters's second novel, The Sculptresswhich was inspired in part by an encounter Walters had as a volunteer prison visitor, [ 2 ] won the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award.

Walters's themes include isolation, family dysfunction, rejection, marginalisation, justice and revenge. Her novels are often set against real backgrounds and real events to draw her readers into the 'reality' of what she is writing about. With no series character tying her to particular people, places or times, she moves freely around settings — a sink estate Acid Rowa Dorset village Fox Evila suburb of London The Shape of Snakes — although every setting is 'claustrophobic' to encourage the characters 'to turn on each other'.

Walters describes herself as an exploratory writer who never uses a plot scheme, begins with simple premises, has no idea 'whodunit' until halfway through a story, but who remains excited about each novel because she, along with her reader, wants to know what happens next. As part of the British project 'Quick Reads', to encourage literacy amongst adults with reading difficulties, Walters wrote a 20,word novella called Chickenfeed.

She supplemented her salary by writing romantic novelettes, short stories, and serials in her spare time. She turned freelance in but continued to write for magazines to cover her bills. Her first full-length crime novel, The Ice Housewas published in Her second novel, The Sculptresswhich was inspired in part by an encounter Walters had as a volunteer prison visitor, won the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award.