Alexandra Marinina (real name Marina Anatolyevna Alekseyeva) is a Russian writer and crime stories author. For 10 years (1979 - 1989) she worked in milicia (police) as a criminology specialist.
She has written over 40 novels, published in over 17 million copies and translated into over 20 languages.
Most of her novels have a common central character Anastasia (Nastya) Kamenskaya. Whole series about Anastasia (Nastya) Kamenskaya contains 30 books.