Lesley Grant-Adamson Explained

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

• Patterns in the Dust (1985) (aka 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) (aka 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)

Notes and References

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