Minette Walters

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Minette Walters is an English crime writer. After her birth in Bishop's Stortford to a serving army officer, Capt Samuel Jebb and his wife Colleen, the first 10 years of Minette's life were spent moving between army bases in the north and south of England. Following the death of her father from kidney failure in 1960, Minette spent a year at the Abbey School in Reading, Berkshire, before being granted a free Foundation Scholarship at the Godolphin boarding school in Salisbury. During a gap year between school and Durham University, 1968, she went to Israel as a volunteer with The Bridge in Britain, working on a kibbutz and in a delinquent boys' home in Jerusalem. She graduated from Trevelyan College, Durham in 1971 with a BA in French