Rochelle Majer Krich (born 1947) is a writer of mystery novels and winner of an

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and the Mary Higgins Clark Award.page 136-138, ''Great Women Mystery Writers'', 2nd Ed. by Elizabeth Blakesley Lindsay, 2007, publ. Greenwood Press,

Biography

Krich was born in Bayreuth, Germany but emigrated to the United States in 1951, moving to

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in 1960. Her parents were survivors of the

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who met after the war, her father's first wife and daughters having been murdered in the camps. She graduated in English from

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and met her husband while studying for a master's at

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. She is married with six children and taught in an orthodox Jewish high school in Los Angeles for many years. Her first published novel ''

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'' won the

for best paperback original and was adapted into film in 1995 as ''

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'', starring

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, and

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. Her first series is set in Los Angeles and concerns Jessie Drake, a divorced homicide detective who has a difficult relationship with her mother and sisters. In the second novel, ''Angel of Death'', Jessie unexpectedly discovers that her mother is Jewish and that family members were murdered in the Holocaust. Her second series features Molly Blume, from an orthodox Jewish family.

Bibliography

Jessie Drake series

* ''Fair Game'' (Mysterious Press, 1993). * ''Angel of Death'' (Mysterious Press, 1994). * ''Blood Money'' (Avon Twilight, 1999). * ''Dead Air'' (Avon Twilight, 2000). * ''Shadows of Sin'' (William Morrow, 2001).

Molly Blume series

* ''Blues in the Night'' (Ballantine Books, 2002). * ''Dream House'' (Ballantine Books, 2003). * ''Grave Endings'' (Ballantine Books, 2004). * ''Now You See Me...'' (Ballantine Books, 2005).

Other novels

* ''

'' (Pinnacle, 1990). - Won 1991

for Best Paperback Original * ''Till Death Do Us Part'' (Avon, 1992). * ''Nowhere to Run'' (Avon, 1994). * ''Speak No Evil'' (Mysterious Press, 1996). * ''Fertile Ground'' (Avon, 1998).

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