Petra Johann

Petra Johann, Jahrgang 1971, ist promovierte Mathematikerin. Sie arbeitete mehrere Jahre in der Forschung und in der Softwarebranche, bevor sie ihre wahre Berufung fand: Menschen umbringen - wenn auch nur auf dem Papier. Damit ihrer Phantasie bei neuen Projekten keine Grenzen gesetzt sind, schreibt Petra Johann keine Serien. Ihre Kriminalromane und Thriller sind Einzelstücke mit wechselndem Personal, in denen es um Themen geht, die Petra Johann faszinieren. Nach Lebensstationen in NRW und Bayern lebt und schreibt Petra Johann mittlerweile in Niedersachsen.

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Hailed as Germany’s Patricia Highsmith, Petra Hammesfahr has written more than twenty crime and suspense novels, and also writes scripts for film and television. She has won numerous literary prizes, including the Crime Prize of Wiesbaden and the Rhineland Literary Prize. Her breakthrough novel, The Sinner, was a major critical and commercial success internationally, including in Germany, where it stayed on the bestseller list for more than fifteen months. The Sinner has been adapted for television as a limited series on USA starring Jessica Biel and Bill Pullman.
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Ivonne Keller

Ivonne Keller lebt und schreibt in der Nähe von Frankfurt am Main. Im Genre Psychologische Spannung hat die Autorin drei Romane veröffentlicht, außerdem ist sie in über zwanzig Krimi-Anthologien vertreten. Die gelernte Bankkauffrau studierte nach ihrer Ausbildung in Spanien und arbeitete einige Jahre als Personalerin, bis sie sich hauptberuflich dem Schreiben widmete. Sie engagiert sich in den Autorenvereinigungen Mörderische Schwestern und Syndikat.
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Donna Woolfolk Cross graduated cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Pennsylvania in 1969 with a B.A. in English. She moved to London, England, after graduation, and worked as an editorial assistant for a small publishing house on Fleet Street, W.H. Allen and Company. Upon her return to the United States, Cross worked at Young and Rubicam, a Madison Avenue advertising firm, before going on to graduate school at UCLA where she earned a master's degree in Literature and Writing in 1972.

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Joy Fielding (née Tepperman; born March 18, 1945) is a Canadian novelist and actress. She lives in Toronto, Ontario.

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Charlotte Link

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Charlotte Link (born 5 October 1963 in Frankfurt am Main) is a German writer. She is among the most successful contemporary authors writing in German.
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