Elisabeth Bowers
Elisabeth Bowers (born October 10, 1949 in Vancouver ) is a Canadian author who became best known for two detective novels about the private detective Meg Lacey .
Life
Elisabeth Bowers was born in Vancouver on the Canadian Pacific coast and grew up there. Before she first appeared as an author in 1988 with the detective novel Ladies' Night , she worked as a laborer, librarian, reporter and teacher.
Both of Bowers' novels about the detective Meg Lacey are about child pornography and violence against women and children, without Bowers using these topics in a striking way or working with clichéd accusations. Compared, for example, with the novels by Andrew Vachss on the same subject, the courses of action in Bowers' novels are much less marked by “action” and violence and also include the protagonist's everyday troubles and doubts much more.
Works
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Ladies' Night . The Seal Press, Seattle 1988, ISBN 0931188652
- German: Ladies' Night . Detective novel. Fischer TB-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1990, ISBN 3-596-28383-3
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No forwarding address . The Seal Press, Seattle 1991, ISBN 1878067133
- German: Moved unknown . Detective novel. Fischer TB-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 3-596-11591-4
literature
- Kathleen Gregory Klein: Great Women Mystery Writers: Classic to Contemporary. Greenwood Press, Westport 1994, ISBN 0-313-28770-8 , p. 35 ff. ( Limited preview in Google book search).
Web links
- Literature by and about Elisabeth Bowers in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kathleen Gregory Klein (Ed.): Great Women Mystery Writers: Classic to Contemporary. Greenwood Press, 1994, ISBN 0313287708 , p. 35 ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
- ↑ Meg Lacey - Created by Elisabeth Bowers , profile of the detective on www.thrillingdetective.com (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bowers, Elisabeth |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 10, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vancouver |