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Tessa Pacelli

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Thriller, Mystery, Suspense

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Like one of my protagonists, I have an MBA from Harvard Business School and a background in finance. I will forever love finance – a complex, elegant discipline full of conflict, suspense, massive highs and lows. But something was missing from my life. Namely, I wanted to write, just like my childhood idols: Shirley Conran, V.C. Andrews, Judith Krantz, Jackie Collins, Belva Plain, Barbara Taylor Bradford. Their books got me through many hard times a kid. As a teen. Here were heroines who devoured life, never compromised, went through hell, refused to give up. As I got older, I started reading the great thriller writers. Ludlum, Clancy, Grisham, Koontz, Patterson.

It seems it all melded together, because today I write woman-centric thrillers. ...more

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