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Five years after architect amanda powells husband vanishes amid cries of embezzlement, a homeless man calling himself billy blake crawls into her garage and, in full view of her well stocked freezer, starves himself to death. Her work has been translated into thirtytwo languages and has been adapted. Minette walters does this a bit with her writings, so i was not surprised. Read the last hours by minette walters available from rakuten kobo. As her father was a serving army officer, the first 10 years of walters s life were spent moving. Select the book titles or images below to visit the relevant detail page for each book on the website of minettes literary agent jane gregory at david higham.
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After being rejected by numerous publishers, her novel was finally picked up by macmillan publishers. Minette walters picked up her pen again in 1987 just when her younger son philip, was starting fulltime education. Walters was born in bishops stortford in 1949 to samuel jebb and colleen jebb. Available now in hardcover, the book will be available in paperback in the uk on 6 june 2019. The ice house was awarded britains john creasey award for best first crime novel of the year. Minette walters is an internationally bestselling author with more than twentyfive million copies of her books sold worldwide.
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