V.M. Devine is the pen name for the writing-collaboration of Valerie Ganzevoort and her father, Michael Mahony. Valerie was born in Johannesburg. In between exploring her interest in Children’s Fiction, and writing in collaboration with her dad, she is primarily focussed upon raising her three very young children. Michael originally hails from Dublin, Ireland but has spent the greater part of his life in Johannesburg, South Africa. He has an honours degree in Physics & Mathematics from University College Dublin [UCD] and a Masters Degree in Business from UNISA. He has been married to his wife, Mary, since 1967. They have been blessed with three sons and three daughters, and a wonderful multinational clan of grandchildren. Michael is a retired IT guy who loves writing theology (his published "One of Us" collection consists of 7 books), and he has now fulfilled a long felt aspiration to come up with a Murder Mystery which however remained an aspiration until his daughter Valerie came along with her creative writing skills, and their collaboration has produced "A Terrible Beauty - the murder at Joyce's Tower". “A Terrible Beauty – the murder at Joyce’s Tower” is V.M. Devine’s first novel. The sequel is already in the mix...