Lesley Grant-Adamson
Lesley Grant-Adamson (born Lesley Heycock, 26 November 1942 – 29 July 2026) was a British writer of mystery fiction and journalist.
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 wrote 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 wrote 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
- Patterns in the Dust (1985) (a.k.a. Death on Widow's Walk)
- The Face of Death (1985)
- Guilty Knowledge (1986)
- Wild Justice (1987)
- Curse the Darkness (1990)
Jim Rush novels
- A Life of Adventure (1992)
- Dangerous Games (1994)
Laura Flynn novel
- Flynn (1991) (a.k.a. Too Many Questions)
Non-series novels
- Threatening Eye (1988)
- The Dangerous Edge (1993)
- Wish You Were Here (1995)
- Evil Acts (1996)
- The Girl in the Case (1997)
- Lipstick and Lies (1998)
- Undertow (1999)
Non-fiction
- A Season in Spain (1995) (with Andrew Grant-Adamson)
- Writing Crime and Suspense Fiction (1996)
- Teach Yourself Writing Crime Fiction (2003)
References
- ↑ Kathleen Gregory Klein (1994). Great Women Mystery Writers: Classic to Contemporary. Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-28770-1.
- ↑ The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Modern Crime Fiction. Robinson. 1 January 2002. ISBN 978-1-84119-287-1.
- 1 2 "Lesley Grant-Adamson". www.fantasticfiction.com. Retrieved 1 April 2020.
- ↑ Witts, Preston (24 August 2026). "Lesley Grant-Adamson obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 August 2026.
- ↑ Lesley Ann Grant-Adamson
- 1942 births
- 2026 deaths
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