Kate Ross
Katherine Jean "Kate" Ross was an American mystery author who wrote four books set in Regency-era England about the dandy Julian Kestrel.
Personal life
The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward A. Ross, Kate Ross attended Wellesley College and Yale Law School. A trial lawyer, she worked at Sullivan & Worcester until 1981. She then began her career as a novelist.Ross died of breast cancer in 1998 at the age of 41, and is interred in Wellesley, Massachusetts.
Works
Her novels include:- Cut to the Quick, which won the 1994 Gargoyle award for in the category of Best Historical Mystery
- A Broken Vessel
- Whom the Gods Love
- The Devil in Music, which won the 1997 Agatha Award for in the category of Best Novel.
- "The Lullaby Cheat", a short story featuring Kestrel, is included in the mystery anthology Crime Through Time, edited by Miriam Grace Monfredo and Sharan Newman.
- "The Unkindest Cut" was published in the anthology Past Poisons: An Ellis Peters Memorial Anthology of Historical Crime.