Amelia Ellis (born 23 September 1977) is a British-German novelist and photographer best known for her mystery series featuring London private investigator Nea Fox.
Her themes include guilt and redemption, integrity, courage and sacrifice, but also friendship, love and various aspects of
lesbian
A lesbian is a homosexual woman or girl. The word is also used for women in relation to their sexual identity or sexual behavior, regardless of sexual orientation, or as an adjective to characterize or associate nouns with female homosexu ...
relationships. Urban loneliness is another major subject of her books.
Ellis' protagonist is a pensive but tough
post-feminist woman in her early thirties searching for answers to life's persistent questions, often finding them in the course of her investigations.
Her novels contain elements of
hardboiled
Hardboiled (or hard-boiled) fiction is a literary genre that shares some of its characters and settings with crime fiction (especially detective fiction and noir fiction). The genre's typical protagonist is a detective who battles the violence o ...
fiction,
cozies and classic detective stories and cannot easily be assigned to a specific genre of
mysteries.
As a photographer, Ellis works primarily in the field of
street photography
Street photography is photography conducted for art or inquiry that features unmediated chance encounters and random incidents within Public space, public places. It usually has the aim of capturing images at a decisive or poignant moment by caref ...
. She is best known for her black and white pictures of London. Ellis is taking part in the London-based art project Camden17.
Work
Nea Fox Series
* ''The Lion's Circle'' (2005)
* ''Lilies on Sand'' (2006)
* ''The Fourth Aspect'' (2008)
* ''The Pearl Dragon'' (2010)
* ''The Mirror of Muraro'' (2018)
**
Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Mystery
The Lambda Literary Award for Mystery is an annual literary award, presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation, to a mystery novel by or about people in the LGBT community. Prior to 2021, the award was separated into separate categories for Gay a ...
finalist
References
External links
Amelia Ellis Photography WebsiteNea Fox Series WebsiteBibliographyReview of ''The Lion's Circle'' at GoodreadsReview of ''Lilies on Sand'' at Goodreads
1977 births
Living people
English lesbian writers
English lesbian artists
English LGBTQ novelists
English LGBTQ photographers
English women novelists
British mystery writers
British women photographers
Women mystery writers
Lesbian novelists
Lesbian photographers
German lesbian writers
German lesbian artists
German LGBTQ novelists
German LGBTQ photographers
German women photographers
21st-century English women writers
21st-century English novelists
21st-century English LGBTQ people
21st-century German women writers
21st-century German novelists
21st-century German LGBTQ people
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