Alexandra Marinina

From 1979 to 1998 she worked in research and education units of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD).

She resigned from the police militsiya system (a semi-formal term for the set of MVD organizations) in February, 1998 to become a full-time writer.

[1] Marinina started writing in 1991, when, together with her colleague Alexander Gorkin, she wrote a detective story that was published in magazine Militsiya.

In December 1992, she finished her first novel Confluence of Circumstances, which was also published in Militsiya magazine, in 1993.

The television series Kamenskaya, based on eight of Marinina's novels, was shown on national Russian TV, and also in Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Poland, Germany and France.