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Best-selling authors tell all ‘WE’RE PARTNERS IN CRIME!’

They met as carefree American teens singing ’80s hit La Bamba at prestigious Harvard University and their friendship soon turned into romance, which led to them co-authoring best-selling crime books based on real-life cases.

Now writer TJ Mitchell and his forensic pathologist wife Dr Judy Melinek have scripted a perfect ending to their own harrowing story, relocating their family to New Zealand to escape their COVID-ravaged homeland.

The couple feel “so grateful” to be a world away from their former lives in the US, where Judy led the pandemic response for a sheriff-coroner offi ce in the San Francisco Bay Area, but didn’t feel safe or supported at work.

Chatting to from their new home in

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