Gillian Linscott (born 27 September 1944) is a British author. She studied at
Somerville College, Oxford
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.
She worked as a journalist for the ''
Liverpool Daily Post
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Until 13 January 2012 it was a daily morning newspaper, with the tit ...
'', ''
Birmingham Post
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'', ''
The Guardian
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'' and
BBC, 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
Crime Writers' Association
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prize
The Ellis Peters Historical Dagger.
She is married to author
Tony Geraghty and lives in
Herefordshire
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.
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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 detective
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/ mystery series using the pen name
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A pen na ...
Caro Peacock.
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
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1944 births
Living people
British writers
People from Windsor, Berkshire
The Guardian journalists
People from Herefordshire
Women mystery writers
Alumni of Somerville College, Oxford