Lesley Grant-Adamson

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Lesley Grant-Adamson (born Lesley Heycock, 26 November 1942) is a British writer of mystery fiction and former journalist.

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Life and career

A 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

List taken from: [3]

Rain Morgan novels

Jim Rush novels

Laura Flynn novel

Non-series novels

Non-fiction

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References

  1. Kathleen Gregory Klein (1994). Great Women Mystery Writers: Classic to Contemporary. Greenwood Press. ISBN   978-0-313-28770-1.
  2. The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Modern Crime Fiction. Robinson. 1 January 2002. ISBN   978-1-84119-287-1.
  3. 1 2 "Lesley Grant-Adamson". www.fantasticfiction.com. Retrieved Apr 1, 2020.