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Roberta Franklin

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in Kempten, Germany

April 03, 1973

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I was born in Germany, studied English Literature and History at LMU Munich, and in 1998 I came to Greece where in 2000 I gave birth to my daughter Marianna. I've worked as a journalist, as social hostess on a cruise ship, as an insurance agent, teacher of foreign languages and translator. I now live in Holyhead, Wales, with my darling husband Ian, and we work together as freelance indexers.

In 2016, my first novel was published: "The Professor and the Bird", an adventure-romance. The sequl "Treasures of the Deep Blue Sea" came out in 2018, and I'm now working on a new project - an internet romance. Inspired by real life... ...more

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Better Off Read by Nora Page

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Nora Page’s ‘Old Lady Sleuth’ cosy mystery “Better Off Read” certainly is one of the best in the genre that I’ve read so far.

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