Tasha Alexander

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Tasha Alexander
BornAnastasia Gutting
(1969-12-01) December 1, 1969 (age 54)
South Bend, Indiana
Pen nameTasha Alexander
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Notre Dame
Period2005-Present
Spouse
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(m. 2010)​
ChildrenAlexander Tyska
Parents Gary Gutting (father)
Website
www.tashaalexander.com

Tasha Alexander (born Anastasia Gutting on December 1, 1969) is an American author who writes New York Times bestselling [1] historical mystery fiction.

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Biography

Alexander was born and raised in South Bend, Indiana to Anastasia (Friel) and Gary Gutting, University of Notre Dame philosophy professors. [2]

In 2002, while living in New Haven, Connecticut, she started work on her first novel, after being inspired by a passage in Dorothy L. Sayers's Gaudy Night. [3] Carolyn Marino at William Morrow acquired the book, And Only to Deceive, which was published in 2005 as the first installment of the Lady Emily series. Following a move to Franklin, Tennessee, where Alexander wrote her second novel in a local Starbucks, she eventually relocated to Chicago, where she married British novelist Andrew Grant (brother of bestselling author Lee Child) in 2010. [4]

In 2007, according to Library Journal , Minotaur Books "lured her away" from William Morrow. [5] She is now edited by Charles Spicer and is the imprint's top writer of historical mysteries. Alexander's work has been translated into more than a dozen languages and has been nominated for the Bruce Alexander Award and the RT Reviewers Choice Award. [6] She has a reputation for being extremely careful about accuracy in her novels [7] [8] and is meticulous about research. [9]

The Lady Emily series

The Lady Emily series, set in a time between the 1890s and 1900s and spanning across cities throughout Europe, follow the adventures of Lady Emily and her husband Colin Hargreaves.

Novels and short stories
The Lady Emily series
No.YearNovel ISBN (William Morrow)
01.2005And Only to Deceive ISBN 978-0-060-75671-0
02.2007A Poisoned Season ISBN 978-0-061-17414-8
03.2008A Fatal Waltz ISBN 978-0-061-17422-3
03.052009"The Bridal Strain" (short story) ISBN — (none) —
No.YearNovel ISBN (Minotaur Books)
04.2009Tears of Pearl ISBN 978-0-312-38370-1
05.2010Dangerous to Know ISBN 978-0-312-38379-4
06.2011A Crimson Warning ISBN 978-0-312-66175-5
07.2012Death in the Floating City ISBN 978-0-312-66176-2
08.2013Behind the Shattered Glass ISBN 978-1-250-02470-1
09.2014The Counterfeit Heiress ISBN 978-1-250-02469-5
09.052014"Star of the East" (short story) ISBN 978-1-466-87367-4
10.2015The Adventuress ISBN 978-1-250-05826-3
10.052015"That Silent Night" (short story) ISBN 978-1-466-89277-4
11.2016A Terrible Beauty ISBN 978-1-250-05827-0
12.2017Death in St. Petersburg ISBN 978-1-250-05828-7
12.052018"Amid the Winter's Snow" (short story) ISBN 978-1-250-21300-6
13.2018Uneasy Lies the Crown ISBN 978-1-250-16470-4
13.052019"Upon the Midnight Clear" (short story) ISBN 978-1-250-75125-6
14.2020In the Shadow of Vesuvius ISBN 978-1-250-16473-5
15.2021The Dark Heart of Florence ISBN 978-1-250-62206-8
16.2022Secrets of the Nile ISBN 978-1-250-81969-7
17.2023A Cold Highland Wind ISBN 978-1-250-87233-3

Non-Lady Emily short story works

(Short stories appearing in anthology collections)

Miscellaneous works

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