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I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11.

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I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.

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The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon.

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Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in a breathtaking ride along Chicago's mean streets.

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Capo, my first golden retriever, so loved to swim she once jumped off a cliff to get into Lake Superior.

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I had wanted to write Ghost Country for a long time, but it wouldn't work.

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I thought it was time for a tough, smart, likable female private investigator, and that's how VI came to life.

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My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.

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No agent wants to see a book until he or she has decided whether to pursue the relationship.

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People have less privacy and are crammed together in cities, but in the wide open spaces they secretly keep tabs on each other a lot more.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: June 8th, 1947

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