Lesley Grant-Adamson
Lesley Grant-Adamson is a British writer of mystery fiction and former journalist.
Life and career
A native of London, Grant-Adamson attended schools in that city and in Wales before embarking on a journalistic career in the early 1960s; she held a string of magazine and newspaper positions before becoming a feature writer with The Guardian, a job she left in 1980 to become a full-time freelance writer. Besides crime novels, she has written television scripts, poetry, magazine pieces, and short stories. Her novels feature Rain Morgan, a gossip columnist; private detective Laura Flynn; and American conman Jim Rush. She has written a number of non-series novels and several works of non-fiction as well. Her novel Patterns in the Dust was nominated for a John Creasey Award for Best First Novel.Works
List taken from:Rain Morgan novels
Jim Rush novels
- A Life of Adventure
- ''Dangerous Games''
Laura Flynn novel
- ''Flynn''
Non-series novels
- Threatening Eye
- The Dangerous Edge
- Wish You Were Here
- Evil Acts
- The Girl in the Case
- Lipstick and Lies
- ''Undertow''
Non-fiction
- A Season in Spain
- Writing Crime and Suspense Fiction
- ''Teach Yourself Writing Crime Fiction''