Julia Spencer-Fleming

Julia Spencer-Fleming (* 1961 Plattsburgh Air Force Base in New York ) is an American writer who is known for her romantic mystery crime novels .

Life

Since her father was a soldier , she spent most of her childhood on various army bases, including four years in Germany. She studied acting and history at Ithaca College in Ithaca (City, New York) , New York, after Jura and his doctorate from the University of Maine School of Law in Portland Dr. jur.

In 2001 she won the St. Martin's Malice Domestic Best First Traditional Mystery Award with her book manuscript In the Bleak Midwinter and prevailed against more than 230 other senders. In 2002 the book was published. Since then her books have been published by St. Martin's.

After the success of her books, she quit working in a law firm and devoted herself entirely to writing. She lives with her husband, three children, and some animals in a very old house outside of Portland.

Her previous thrillers form a series around the pastor Clare Fergusson and Sheriff Russ Van Alstyne.

Awards

• Agatha Award 2002, Best First Novel : In the Bleak Midwinter (dt. The white dress of death )
• Anthony Award 2003, Best First Novel : In the Bleak Midwinter (dt. The white dress of death )
• Macavity Award 2003, Best First Novel: In the Bleak Midwinter (German: The White Dress of Death )
• Dilys Award 2003, In the Bleak Midwinter (dt. The white dress of death )
• Barry Award 2003, Barry Award / Best First Novel : In the Bleak Midwinter (Eng. The white dress of death )
• Nero Wolfe Award 2007, Best Novel: All Mortal Flesh (Eng. Who is burdened with guilt )
• Gumshoe Award 2007, Best Novel: All Mortal Flesh (Eng. Who is burdened with guilt )

Works

• The white dress of death . Knaur TB , 2007, ISBN 978-3-426-63788-3 (English original: In the Bleak Midwinter . Thomas Dunne Books / St. Martin's Minotaur, 2002, ISBN 0-312-28847-6 ), translated by Stefan Troßbach
• The red trail of anger . Knaur TB, 2006, ISBN 3-426-62834-1 (Original: A Fountain filled with Blood . Thomas Dunne Books, 2003, ISBN 0-312-30410-2 ), translated by Stefan Troßbach
• The pale hand of fate . Knaur TB, 2007, ISBN 978-3-426-63537-7 (Original: Out of the Deep I Cry . Thomas Dunne Books, 2004, ISBN 0-312-31262-8 ), translated by Frauke Czwikla
• The dark web of vengeance . Knaur TB, 2008, ISBN 978-3-426-63538-4 (Original: To Darkness and to Death . Thomas Dunne Books, 2005, ISBN 0-312-33485-0 ), translated by Frauke Czwikla
• Who is burdened with guilt . Knaur TB, 2009, ISBN 978-3-426-50312-6 (Original: All Mortal Flesh . Thomas Dunne Books, 2006, ISBN 0-312-31264-4 ), translated by Frauke Czwikla
• And curse their sins . Knaur TB, 2012, ISBN 978-3-426-50313-3 (Original: I shall not want . Thomas Dunne Books, 2008, ISBN 978-0-312-33487-1 ), translated by Frauke Czwikla
• One was a soldier . Minotaur Books, 2011, ISBN 978-0-312-33489-5 (English)
• Through the Evil Days . St. Martins Press, 2013, ISBN 978-0-312-60684-8 (English)

Web links

• Julia Spencer-Fleming at the Droemer Knaur publishing group
• Official website of Julia Spencer-Fleming
• Julia Spencer-Fleming at krimi-couch.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Elizabeth A. Blakesley: Great Women Mystery Writers - Second Edition, Greenwood Pub Group Inc, 2010, p. 240.
2. ↑ ^{a b} http://www.juliaspencerfleming.com/julia-spencer-fleming.html. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 23, 2011 ; accessed on October 27, 2012 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ http://www.droemer-knaur.de/autoren/Julia+Spencer-Fleming.164775.html. Retrieved October 27, 2012 .