Gillian Linscott (born 27 September 1944) is a British author. She studied at

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. She worked as a journalist for the ''

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, before becoming a novelist, specialising in crime writing.page 147, ''Great Women Mystery Writers'', 2nd Ed. by Elizabeth Blakesley Lindsay, 2007, publ. Greenwood Press, Her novel ''Absent Friends'' won the 2000 British

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prize The Ellis Peters Historical Dagger. She is married to author

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and lives in

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Bibliography

*''A Healthy Body'' (1984) *''Murder Makes Tracks'' (1985) *''Knightfall'' (1986) *''A Whiff Of Sulphur'' (1987) *''Unknown Hand'' (1988) *''Murder, I Presume'' (1990) *''Sister Beneath the Sheet'' (1991) *''Hanging on the Wire'' (1992) *''Stage Fright'' (1993) *''Widow's Peak'' (1994) (''a.k.a.'' ''An Easy Day for a Lady'') *''Crown Witness'' (1995) *''Dead Man's Music'' (1996) (''a.k.a.'' ''Dead Man's Sweetheart'') *''Dance On Blood'' (1998) *''Absent Friends'' (1999) *''The Perfect Daughter'' (2000) *''Dead Man Riding'' (2002) *''The Garden'' (2003) *''Blood On The Wood'' (2003)

Caro Peacock

Linscott writes the Liberty Lane

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series using the

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Caro Peacock. # ''Death At Dawn'' (2007) (), in the USA as ''A Foreign Affair'' (), and in Italy as ''Morte all'alba'' () # ''Death of a Dancer'' (2008) (), in the USA as ''A Dangerous Affair'' () # ''A Corpse in Shining Armour'' (2009) (), in the USA as ''A Family Affair'' () # ''When the Devil Drives'' (2011) () # ''Keeping Bad Company'' (2012) () # ''The Path of the Wicked'' (2013) () # ''Friends in High Places'' (2015) ()

Prizes

*The Ellis Peters Historical Dagger, 2000, for ''Absent Friends'' *The Herodotus Award for the Best International Historical Mystery Novel (2000), for ''Absent Friends''

References

External links

Author web siteFantasticFiction: Gillian LinscottNew Statesman: "Dawn raids: A guide to the etiquette" by Gillian Linscott, 1998New Statesman: "It can't happen here - can it?" by Gillian Linscott, 1999The story behind Friends in High Places - Essay by Caro Peacock, 2015
{{DEFAULTSORT:Linscott, Gillian 1944 births Living people British writers People from Windsor, Berkshire The Guardian journalists Writers from Herefordshire British women mystery writers Alumni of Somerville College, Oxford