1. Minette Caroline Mary Walters DL was born on 26 September 1949 and is an English writer.
12 Facts About Minette Walters
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Minette Walters spent a year at the Abbey School in Reading, Berkshire, before winning a Foundation Scholarship at the Godolphin boarding school in Salisbury.
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Minette Walters graduated from Trevelyan College, Durham in 1971 with a BA in French.
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Minette Walters joined IPC Magazines as a sub-editor in 1972 and became an editor of Woman's Weekly Library the following year.
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Minette Walters supplemented her salary by writing romantic novelettes, short stories, and serials in her spare time.
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Minette Walters turned freelance in 1977 but continued to write for magazines to cover her bills.
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Minette Walters's themes include isolation, family dysfunction, rejection, marginalisation, justice and revenge.
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Minette Walters's novels are often set against real backgrounds and real events to draw her readers into the 'reality' of what she is writing about.
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Minette Walters describes herself as an exploratory writer who never uses a plot scheme, begins with simple premises, has no idea 'whodunit' until halfway through a story, but who remains excited about each novel because she, along with her reader, wants to know what happens next.
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In September 2007, Minette Walters released her fourteenth book, The Chameleon's Shadow, in the UK.
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In 2019 Minette Walters was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Dorset.
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Minette Walters has written another entry in the Quick Reads series entitled A Dreadful Murder for World Book Day 2013.