Hayder, Mo
1962 - 2021

The British thriller writer Mo Hayder, pen name for Clare Dunkel, grew up in Essex. She revolted against her academic...

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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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Spillane, Mickey
1918 - 2006

The American author Frank Morrison Spillane was born in Brooklyn, New York, to an Irish Catholic father and Scottish...

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Jesse, F. Tennyson
1888 - 1958

A versatile English writer and playwright, F. Tennyson Jesse (1888–1958) also worked as a journalist, drawer, and amateur c...

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