About Minette Walters
Minette Caroline Mary Walters DL is an English writer. As her father was a serving army officer, the first 10 years of Walters's life were spent moving between army bases in the north and south of England. Walters was the first crime/thriller writer to win three major prizes with her first three books. Her first full-length novel, The Ice House, was published in 1992. Within four months, it had won the Crime Writers' Association John Creasey award for best first novel and had been snapped up by 11 foreign publishers.
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