Gillian Linscott
Gillian Linscott (born September 27, 1944 in Yorkshire ) is a British journalist and author.
Life
Linscott worked as a journalist for many years. The first journalistic work was reporting on street fighting in Belfast . She worked as a playwright and as a Parliamentary Rapporteur for BBC Radio . Later she worked as a writer. She is married to journalist Tony Geraghty and lives on a farm in Herefordshire .
Works
She writes detective novels . Your works are primarily set in the Victorian era .
- Murder I presume , 1986
- Unknown hand , 1988
- The garden , 2002
- Birdie Linnett range:
- A healthy body , 1984
- Murder makes tracks , 1985
- A whiff of sulfur , 1987
- Knightfall , 1987
- Nell Bray range:
- Sister beneath the sheet , 1991, death in Biarritz
- Hanging on the wire , 1992, To hell with Dr. Freud
- Stage fright , 1993, divorce in English
- Widow's peak / An easy day for a lady , 1994, Tod am Montblac
- Crown witness , 1995
- Dead man's music / Dead man's sweetheart , 1996
- Dance on blood , 1998
- Absent friends , 1999
- The perfect daughter , 2000
- Dead man rising , 2002
- Blood on the wood , 2004
Linscott wrote the Liberty Lane series under the pseudonym Caro Peacock .
- Liberty Lane Row:
- Death at dawn / A foreign affair , 2007
- Death of a dancer / A dangerous affair , 2008
- A corpse of shining armor / A family affair , 2009
- When the devil drives , 2011
- Keeping bad company , 2012
- The path of the wicked , 2013
Awards
In 2000 she received the Ellis Peters Historical Dagger Award and the Herodotus Award for the band Absent Friends of the Nell Bray series .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Homepage of the author
- ↑ Information on the author in Tod in Biarritz , ECON Taschenbuch Verlag Düsseldorf 1996, ISBN 3-612-25144-9 , page 1
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Linscott, Gillian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British journalist and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 27, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Yorkshire |