Kate Ross (1) (1956–1998)
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- Gangbare naam
- Ross, Kate
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- Ross, Katherine Jean
- Geboortedatum
- 1956-06-21
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1998-03-12
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- female
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- USA
- Woonplaatsen
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Wellesley College
Yale Law School - Beroepen
- lawyer
mystery writer - Korte biografie
- Kate Ross was an American mystery author who wrote four books set in Regency-era England about dandy Julian Kestrel. She also was a trial lawyer for the Boston law firm of Sullivan & Wooster. She died of cancer in 1998.
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The Devil in Music is stronger than the previous work of Kate Ross' that I've read, [book: Whom the Gods Love], and she was clearly improving as a writer before her untimely death not long after this final book of hers was published. Having a Regency-era country house murder mystery take place in Italy is a nice shake-up of the usual formula, since it lets Ross bring in elements of contemporary Austrian/Italian politics to add complicating factors. This wasn't a bad wintry holiday read. That said, parts of the plot/exposition/reveal are lumpier than needs be, and the core romantic relationships both fail to convince and feel like they belong to a book written much earlier than the '90s.… (meer)