Laura Wilson (writer)

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Laura Wilson (* 1964 ) is a British crime writer who lives and works in the Islington district in her native London . She has published numerous crime novels , some of which have also appeared in German. Several of these novels are set in London during World War II . She also wrote some historical novels for children in the 1990s.

Wilson holds degrees in English literature from Somerville College , Oxford and University College London . She worked as a teacher and still works today as a non-fiction editor . In 1999 her first detective novel, A Little Death , was nominated for the Dagger Award of the British Crime Writers' Association (CWA). Another work, The Lover , was nominated for both the CWA's and the CWA's Gold Dagger Ellis Peters Historical Dagger .

Works

Children's books
  • Daily life in a Victorian House (1993)
  • Daily Life in a Tudor House (1995)
  • Daily Life in a Wartime House (1996)
  • How I Survived the Oregon Trail (1999)
  • How I survived the Irish famine: the journal of Mary O'Flynn (2000)
Detective novels
  • A Little Death (1999), German: A Little Death (1999)
  • Dying Voices (2000), German: Weg in die Nacht (2000)
  • My Best Friend (2001), German: Ein pure Herz (2002)
  • Hello Bunny Alice (2002); German: Im Dunkel der Angst (2003)
  • The Lover (2004); German: When the night comes (2005)
  • A Thousand Lies (2006); German: In Abrahams Loss (2006)
  • Stratton's War (2007)
  • The Man Who Wasn't There (2008):
  • The Innocent Spy (2009)
  • An Empty Death (2010)

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personal data
SURNAME Wilson, Laura
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British crime novelist
DATE OF BIRTH 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH London