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![Portrait image of Dennis Lehane](images/writer/3132/626839fff3b6f2fd32432ded9df22194f36554399ade1.jpg)
Lehane, Dennis
1966 -
The American crime writer Dennis Lehane grew up in an Irish family as the youngest of five children in Dorchester on the...
Further reading![Portrait image of Nicci French](images/writer/3181/6197d68316ef47506b82a3899e7d4a27f07f84c5ff55f.jpg)
French, Nicci
1958 -
Nicci French is the pseudonym of the husband-and-wife team Nicci Gerrard (born 1958) and Sean French (born 1959). They are...
Further reading![Portrait image of P.D. James](images/writer/845/662a59e62e1ab1f5dc70241b04e747c811f65e32e680f.jpg)
James, P.D.
1920 - 2014
English crime writer born in Oxford as Phyllis Dorothy James. She graduated from the Cambridge High School for Girls in...
Further reading![Portrait of Patricia Highsmith](images/writer/758/6050de1407ec9c375ac3d3b949fa5d847943a10fa138b.jpg)
Highsmith, Patricia
1921 - 1995
Patricia Highsmith was an American author born in Fort Worth, Texas, as Mary Patricia Plangman. Both parents were artists...
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