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Liza Cody (born 11 April 1944, in London) is an English crime fiction writer.
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Liza Cody (born 11 April 1944, in London) is an English crime fiction writer.
Before she began writing, Cody worked mostly in the visual arts, including as a graphic designer, but she also made furniture and was employed by Madame Tussaud's waxwork museum as a hair inserter and colouring artiste. [1]
Cody launched her first book in 1980. She is, as of 2024, the author of 17 novels and many short stories. Most of her work is set in London. Her Anna Lee series introduced the professional female private detective to mystery fiction.[ citation needed ] The entire Anna Lee series was loosely adapted for television and broadcast in both the U.K. and the U.S. [2]
Cody is also the author of the Bucket Nut Trilogy, featuring professional wrestler Eva Wylie, as well as the stand-alone novels Rift, Gimme More, Ballad of a Dead Nobody, Miss Terry, and Gift or Theft. Gimme More and Ballad of a Dead Nobody reflect the author's interest and experience in the world of music and musicians. Miss Terry is a thriller dealing with issues about the children of immigrant families in modern Britain. Gift or Theft is her take on the Gothic novel. Cody has also written a two-book series about a homeless woman: Lady Bag and Crocodiles and Good Intentions: further adventures of Lady Bag. The Short-Order Detective features an ex-London policewoman who is trying to establish herself as a private detective by taking on the small cases that the police ignore.
Cody's novels have been widely translated and as of 2023 remain in print. Her short stories have appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines. A widely praised collection of her first seventeen was published as Lucky Dip and other stories in 2003, reprinted in 2016. Her stories since then were published as My People and other crime stories in 2021
As of 2022, she lives in Bath, England, [3] and has a daughter and two grandchildren. [4] She is also a founder member of a small NGO in the Busiiro region of Uganda whose mission is to keep young girls in education instead of early marriage or prostitution.
Awards include the John Creasey Memorial Prize and the CWA Silver Dagger in the UK as well as an Anthony Award in the U.S. and a Marlowe in Germany. [5] She has twice been nominated for the MWA's Edgars.
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