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Judith Cutler | |
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| Language | English |
| Nationality | British |
| Genre | Crime novels |
| Spouse | Keith Miles |
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Judith Cutler is a writer of crime fiction whose novels are mostly in series: ten in the series about amateur sleuth and lecturer Sophie Rivers; six about Detective Sergeant Kate Power; six about antique restorer Lina Townend and five about Detective Superintendent Fran Harman. Most are set in the present day, in or around Birmingham.
Born in 1946 in the Black Country, Cutler later moved to the Birmingham suburb of Harborne.
She started writing while at Oldbury Grammar School, winning the Critical Quarterly Short Story prize. She read English at university, but wrote nothing more until in her thirties. While suffering from chickenpox, she started her first, unpublished, novel. Two further unpublished works followed.
She taught English at a Further Education College in Birmingham, but quit after the publication of her first novel, and moved to the suburb of Kings Heath.
For many years she was a trustee of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra's Benevolent Fund and on the Committee of Birmingham Chamber Music Society. Her partner is Keith Miles.
Guilty as sin (2015)
Cutler has also written several successful short stories, for Radio 4, Bella magazine and others.
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