Jake Kerridge profiles MC Beaton, the crime writer who's the third most borrowed adult author in Britain, in the Daily Telegraph.
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11 February 2013
At first glance, there are not many surprises in the newly released list of the most borrowed authors in UK libraries in 2011-12. The products that come off the James Patterson conveyor belt still retain their unfathomable popularity, putting him in the number one slot, while the tear-jerking romance writer Nora Roberts is number two.
But in this who's who of authors, there comes a who's that? moment for many people when they reach the third name on the list: MC Beaton.