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British author (born 1944)
Gillian Linscott |
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Born | (1944-09-27) September 27, 1944 (age 79)
Windsor, England |
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Occupation | Author |
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Genre | Mystery |
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Notable awards | The
Ellis Peters Historical Dagger The Herodotus Award for the Best International Historical Mystery Novel |
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Partner | Anthony Joseph Vincent Geraghty |
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Gillian Linscott (born 27 September 1944) is a British author. She studied at
Somerville College, Oxford.
She worked as a journalist for the
Liverpool Daily Post,
Birmingham Post,
The Guardian and
BBC, before becoming a novelist, specialising in crime writing.
[1] Her novel Absent Friends won the 2000 British
Crime Writers' Association prize
The Ellis Peters Historical Dagger.
She is married to author
Tony Geraghty and lives in
Herefordshire.
[1]
Bibliography
- A Healthy Body (1984)
- Murder Makes Tracks (1985)
- Knightfall (1986)
- A Whiff Of Sulphur (1987)
- Unknown Hand (1988)
- Murder, I Presume (1990)
- Sister Beneath the Sheet (1991)
- Hanging on the Wire (1992)
- Stage Fright (1993)
- Widow's Peak (1994) (a.k.a. An Easy Day for a Lady)
- Crown Witness (1995)
- Dead Man's Music (1996) (a.k.a. Dead Man's Sweetheart)
- Dance On Blood (1998)
- Absent Friends (1999)
- The Perfect Daughter (2000)
- Dead Man Riding (2002)
- The Garden (2003)
- Blood On The Wood (2003)
Caro Peacock
Linscott writes the Liberty Lane
detective/
mystery series using the
pen name Caro Peacock.
[2]
- Death At Dawn (2007) (
ISBN
0007244193), in the USA as A Foreign Affair (
ISBN
0061445894), and in Italy as Morte all'alba (
ISBN
8862510195)
- Death of a Dancer (2008) (
ISBN
0007244207), in the USA as A Dangerous Affair (
ISBN
006144748X)
- A Corpse in Shining Armour (2009) (
ISBN
0007244231), in the USA as A Family Affair (
ISBN
0061447498)
- When the Devil Drives (2011) (
ISBN
178029011X)
- Keeping Bad Company (2012) (
ISBN
1780290209)
- The Path of the Wicked (2013) (
ISBN
1780290411)
- Friends in High Places (2015) (
ISBN
0727885057)
Prizes
- The Ellis Peters Historical Dagger, 2000, for Absent Friends
- The Herodotus Award for the Best International Historical Mystery Novel (2000), for Absent Friends
References
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