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Tatiana Garmash-Roffe (Russian: Татьяна Гармаш-Роффе; née Татьяна Владимировна Гармаш) born November 4, 1959 in Moscow, Russia, is an author of detective stories, who also published under the pseudonym "Tatiana Svetlova".
Life and work
Tatiana Garmash-Roffe graduated from the Department of Philology of the Moscow State University. After graduation she was teaching Russian for foreign students at the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia. She also had worked as a journalist and written theater reviews for the theatrical magazines.
In 1994 she married a French national Claude Roffé and moved to France with her two children from a previous marriage. Soon after that she wrote her first novel Naked Queen which was published in 1995 under the title Love without Memory by a Moscow publishing house "Izdatelstvo Rusanova." In 1998 a large Moscow publisher EKSMO published under the pseudonym Tatiana Svetlova her second novel The Mystery Of My Reflection, soon followed by other novels.
In 2006 EKSMO started publishing her new novels under her real name in a series The Detective of the Highest Standard. During the next two years EKSMO also republished in the same series her novels previously published under the pseudonym Tatiana Svetlova.
Garmash-Roffe’s novels are distinguished by an elegant literary style, meticulously detailed settings, daring imagination, and strong emphasis on deduction work by her major character, a Moscow private detective Alexei Kisanov. She does scrupulous research on her books, paying much attention to the details of the real world of crime and investigations. Her novels are known for their taut atmosphere and strong psychological suspense, along with the fast changing pace of her storytelling.