Tasha Alexander | |
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Born | Anastasia Gutting December 1, 1969 South Bend, Indiana |
Pen name | Tasha Alexander |
Language | English |
Period | 2005-present |
Spouse | |
Parents | Gary Gutting (father) |
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Tasha Alexander (born Anastasia Gutting on December 1, 1969) is an American author of historical mystery fiction. [1]
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. After moving to Franklin, Tennessee, where Alexander wrote her second novel in a Starbucks coffeehouse, she moved to Chicago, where in 2010 she married British crime novelist Andrew Grant, brother of bestselling author Lee Child. [4]
In 2007, according to Library Journal , Minotaur Books "lured her away" from William Morrow. [5]
The Lady Emily series, set in a time between the 1890s and 1900s and spanning across cities throughout Europe, follows the adventures of Lady Emily and her husband Colin Hargreaves.
The Lady Emily series | |||
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No. | Year | Novel | ISBN (William Morrow) |
01. | 2005 | And Only to Deceive | ISBN 978-0-060-75671-0 |
02. | 2007 | A Poisoned Season | ISBN 978-0-061-17414-8 |
03. | 2008 | A Fatal Waltz | ISBN 978-0-061-17422-3 |
03.05 | 2009 | "The Bridal Strain" (short story) | ISBN — (none) — |
No. | Year | Novel | ISBN (Minotaur Books) |
04. | 2009 | Tears of Pearl | ISBN 978-0-312-38370-1 |
05. | 2010 | Dangerous to Know | ISBN 978-0-312-38379-4 |
06. | 2011 | A Crimson Warning | ISBN 978-0-312-66175-5 |
07. | 2012 | Death in the Floating City | ISBN 978-0-312-66176-2 |
08. | 2013 | Behind the Shattered Glass | ISBN 978-1-250-02470-1 |
09. | 2014 | The Counterfeit Heiress | ISBN 978-1-250-02469-5 |
09.05 | 2014 | "Star of the East" (short story) | ISBN 978-1-466-87367-4 |
10. | 2015 | The Adventuress | ISBN 978-1-250-05826-3 |
10.05 | 2015 | "That Silent Night" (short story) | ISBN 978-1-466-89277-4 |
11. | 2016 | A Terrible Beauty | ISBN 978-1-250-05827-0 |
12. | 2017 | Death in St. Petersburg | ISBN 978-1-250-05828-7 |
12.05 | 2018 | "Amid the Winter's Snow" (short story) | ISBN 978-1-250-21300-6 |
13. | 2018 | Uneasy Lies the Crown | ISBN 978-1-250-16470-4 |
13.05 | 2019 | "Upon the Midnight Clear" (short story) | ISBN 978-1-250-75125-6 |
14. | 2020 | In the Shadow of Vesuvius | ISBN 978-1-250-16473-5 |
15. | 2021 | The Dark Heart of Florence | ISBN 978-1-250-62206-8 |
16. | 2022 | Secrets of the Nile | ISBN 978-1-250-81969-7 |
17. | 2023 | A Cold Highland Wind | ISBN 978-1-250-87233-3 |
(Short stories appearing in anthology collections)