Rankin, Ian
1960 -

The Scottish crime writer Ian James Rankin was born in the coal mining town of Cardenden, Fife, where his father owned a...

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Grimes, Martha
1931 -

Martha Grimes is an American author of detective stories born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her father, a lawyer, died when...

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Follett, Ken
1949 -

British author and journalist born in Cardiff, Wales. Kenneth "Ken" Follett’s parents were active members of the church of t...

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Temple, Peter
1946 - 2018

Peter Temple was born in South Africa, but left the country in 1980, deeply sickened by the white regime’s apartheid p...

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