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Valda Taurus

Goodreads Author

Website

https://valdataurus.com

Twitter

@TaurusValda

Genre

Thriller, Mystery, Paranormal

Influences

https://www.deankoontz.com https://www.agathachristie.com http://www.c ...more

Member Since

April 2020

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Valda Taurus is inspired by stories of survival in extreme situations, whether it be a natural disaster or an inner psychological struggle. She holds a master's degree in sociology and a minor in psychology that complements her desire to be a judgment-free observer of people. On the path to becoming a writer, she completed an advanced fiction-writing course. Killing Your Best Friend is her first novel in which she touches on the topic of destructive feelings such as guilt and remorse.

Writing has always been her passion. As she says, "Before I learned how to write, I invented the stories in my head, or they just lived in my head, and then, I tried to guess where they originally came from, and why all these characters chose me to share their ...more

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Average rating: 3.85 · 26 ratings · 8 reviews · 2 distinct works

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My Dear Pooplisher!

Is it not amazing how scammers find you well nowadays? Oh, they even have offices in multiple towns and fancy positions like, for instance, a concierge. I used to think, that the concierge is someone who sits at the front door in a condominium complex, but I see as we grow, we learn new things and meet new people, and they are not always kind to us.
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“You can escape anything but yourself.”
― Valda Taurus

tags: mystery-thriller

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Valda’s Quotes

“In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude. It is so easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements compared with what we owe to the help of others.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison

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