Caz Frear

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Caz Frear is a British mystery fiction novelist. Her 2018 work Sweet Little Lies was published after winning the Richard & Judy "Search for a Bestseller" competition in 2017. [1]

Contents

Cat Kinsella books

TV options

In 2017, Carnival Films purchased TV rights to Sweet Little Lies. [5]

Personal life

Frear grew up in Coventry, [6] England and spent her teenage years dreaming of moving to London and writing a novel. After fulfilling her first dream, it wasn’t until she moved back to Coventry thirteen years later that the second finally came true. She has a degree in History & Politics [7]

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References

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  7. "Goodreads". Good Reads. Retrieved 14 March 2021.