Aleksandra Marinina

Russian crime novels writer. Born in Lviv. From 1979 to 1998 she worked in research and education units of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD). She studied the personality of criminals with anomalies of mentality and criminals who have committed repeated violent crimes, earning a Ph.D. (Kandidat of Law degree) in 1986. She resigned from the militsiya system (a semi-formal term for the set of MVD organizations) in February, 1998 to become a full-time writer.