Sheila Lowe is a

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-born

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and graphologist who has lived in the

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since 1964. Her first book''The Complete Idiot's Guide to Handwriting Analysis''
at Penguin Books was published in 1999 and became a bestseller in the

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series. Her second book''Handwriting of the Famous & Infamous''
/ref> was released a year later. In 2007, the first edition of ''Poison Pen'', the beginning of her Claudia Rose forensic mystery series came out with a small publisher, Capital Crime Press. When ''Poison Pen'' received a

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, who called it "a dynamite debut," Kristen Weber, then-senior editor at

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, picked it up and published the first four books in the series. She is currently the president of the American Handwriting Analysis Foundation.

Awards

* 2000 Southwest Writers Conference competition, Mystery/Suspense/Thriller category * 2007

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, Fiction & Literature: Mystery/Suspense

Bibliography

* Poison Pen * Written in Blood * Dead Write * Last writes: a forensic handwriting mystery * Inkslingers Ball * Outside The Lines * What She Saw * The Complete Idiot's Guide to Handwriting Analysis * Handwriting of the Famous & Infamous

References

External links

Official website
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