Ian Edward Sansom (born 3 December 1966) is an English novelist, best known as the author of the Mobile Library Mystery Series. , he had written four books in the series, which is projected to comprise forty-four novels. He is a frequent contributor to, and critic for, ''

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''. Sansom was born in

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and educated at the

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and the

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, where he was a fellow of Emmanuel College. He is a

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in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the

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and teaches in its writing programme.

Personal life

Ian Sansom is married with three children. They live in

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Bibliography

*''The Truth About Babies: From A-Z'' (2002) *''Ring Road'' (2004) (US title: ''The Impartial Recorder)'') *''The Case of the Missing Books'' (2006) *''Mr Dixon Disappears'' (2006) *''The Delegates' Choice'' (2007) (US title: ''The Book Stops Here)'') *''The Enthusiast's Field Guide to Poetry'' (2007) (editor) *''The Bad Book Affair'' (2009) *''Paper: An Elegy'' (2012) *''The Norfolk Mystery'' (1990) *''Death in Devon'' (2015) *''Westmorland Alone'' (2016) *''Essex poison'' (2017) *''December Stories I'' (2018), No Alibis Press *''The Sussex Murder'' (2019) *''September 1, 1939: A Biography of a Poem'' (2019) *''Reading Room: A Year of Literary Curiosities'' (2019) *''December Stories 2'' (2021)

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* 1966 births Living people English mystery writers Fellows of Emmanuel College, Cambridge Academics of Queen's University Belfast Academics of the University of Warwick People from Bangor, County Down Writers from County Down Place of birth missing (living people) {{UK-writer-stub