Frances Fyfield
Frances Fyfield (actually Frances Hegarty ; born November 18, 1948 in Derbyshire , England ) is a British lawyer and crime novelist .
Life
After she had started studying English, she discovered law for herself and after graduating she worked as a public prosecutor for 15 years . In the process, she gained a lot of experience from petty crime to capital crime , which was to flow into her later novels.
A marriage that consisted of long separations - and eventually failed - eventually got her to write. At first she wrote romantic short stories for women's magazines, but in 1988 she wrote her first detective novel with her most famous heroine, Helen West , a London criminal attorney. In order to hide her writing activity from her professional life, she chose the pseudonym of her mother's maiden name, Fyfield . Most of the books in the Helen West series were made into films.
Three other novels are also about a representative of the rule of law , the lawyer Sarah Fortune , while her last novels no longer formed a series. She published some psychological thrillers in the first half of the 1990s under her real name, Frances Hegarty .
Awards
- 1991 CWA Silver Dagger for Deep Sleep (German: Tiefer Schlaf . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1991)
- 1998 Grand prix de littérature policière for Ombres chinoises (Original: Shadow play ; Ger .: Nachtangst . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1993)
- 2002 Radio Bremen Crime Prize
- 2008 CWA Duncan Lawrie Dagger for Blood from Stone
Works
- Helen West series
- That little deadly knife . DTV, Munich 1992 ( A Question of Guilt , 1988, nominated for the Edgar Award )
- Fire foxes . DTV, Munich 1991 ( Trial by Fire , 1990; US title: Not That Kind of Place )
- Deep sleep . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1991 ( Deep Sleep , 1991)
- Night terrors . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1993 ( Shadow Play , 1993)
- A clear conscience . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1996 ( A Clear Conscience , 1994)
- Against their will . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1997 ( Without Consent , 1996)
- Sarah Fortune series
- Shadow in the mirror . DTV, Munich 1991 ( Shadows on the Mirror , 1989)
- Red high . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1994 ( Perfectly Pure and Good , 1994)
- Brother kiss . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2000 ( Staring at the Light , 1999)
- Brood of ravens . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2006 ( Looking Down , 2004)
- Safer Than Houses , 2005
- Cold to the Touch , 2009
- Other novels
- Blind date . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1999 ( Blind Date , 1998)
- Dark current . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2001 ( Undercurrents , 2000)
- A bad suspicion . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2002 ( The Nature of the Beast , 2001)
- Only he who is free from sin . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2004 ( Seeking Sanctuary , 2003)
- Mrs. Nan's recipe. Two mysterious stories . Europe, Hamburg 2004
- Dark water . Weltbild, Augsburg 2008 ( The Art of Drowning , 2006)
- Blood From Stone , 2008
- Psychological thriller (as "Frances Hegarty")
- In the nursery . DTV, Munich 1992 ( The Playroom , 1991)
- The false Madonna . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1993 ( Half Light , 1992)
- Fire dance . Bertelsmann, Munich 1996 ( Let's Dance , 1995)
Web links
- Own website (English / French)
- Author portrait from the Hoffmann und Campe publishing house
- Prize winner Frances Fyfield Radio Bremen Crime Prize 2002
- Literature by and about Frances Fyfield in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography and reviews of works by Frances Fyfield at perlentaucher.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Elizabeth Blakesley Lindsay: Great Women Mystery Writers , 2nd Edition, 2007, Greenwood Press, ISBN 0-313-33428-5 , p. 84
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fyfield, Frances |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hegarty, Frances (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British lawyer and crime novelist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 18, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Derbyshire , England |