Lesley Grant-Adamson (born Lesley Heycock, 26 November 1942) is a British writer of mystery fiction and former journalist.
Life and career
editA native of London, Grant-Adamson attended schools in that city and in Wales before embarking on a journalistic career in the early 1960s; she held a string of magazine and newspaper positions before becoming a feature writer with The Guardian, a job she left in 1980 to become a full-time freelance writer. Besides crime novels, she has written television scripts, poetry, magazine pieces, and short stories.[1] Her novels feature Rain Morgan, a gossip columnist; private detective Laura Flynn; and American conman Jim Rush.[2] She has written a number of non-series novels and several works of non-fiction as well. Her novel Patterns in the Dust was nominated for a John Creasey Award for Best First Novel.[3]
Works
editList taken from:[3]
Rain Morgan novels
edit- Patterns in the Dust (1985) (aka Death on Widow's Walk)
- The Face of Death (1985)
- Guilty Knowledge (1986)
- Wild Justice (1987)
- Curse the Darkness (1990)
Jim Rush novels
edit- A Life of Adventure (1992)
- Dangerous Games (1994)
Laura Flynn novel
edit- Flynn (1991) (aka Too Many Questions)
Non-series novels
edit- Threatening Eye (1988)
- The Dangerous Edge (1993)
- Wish You Were Here (1995)
- Evil Acts (1996)
- The Girl in the Case (1997)
- Lipstick and Lies (1998)
- Undertow (1999)
Non-fiction
edit- A Season in Spain (1995) (with Andrew Grant-Adamson)
- Writing Crime and Suspense Fiction (1996)
- Teach Yourself Writing Crime Fiction (2003)
References
edit- ^ Kathleen Gregory Klein (1994). Great Women Mystery Writers: Classic to Contemporary. Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-28770-1.
- ^ The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Modern Crime Fiction. Robinson. 1 January 2002. ISBN 978-1-84119-287-1.
- ^ a b "Lesley Grant-Adamson". www.fantasticfiction.com. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
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