Tasha Alexander


Tasha Alexander is an American author of historical mystery fiction.

Biography

Alexander was born and raised in South Bend, Indiana, to Anastasia and Gary Gutting, University of Notre Dame philosophy professors.
In 2002, while living in New Haven, Connecticut, she started work on her first novel after being inspired by a passage in Dorothy L. Sayers's Gaudy Night. Carolyn Marino at William Morrow acquired the book, And Only to Deceive, which was published in 2005 as the first installment of the Lady Emily series. After moving to Franklin, Tennessee, where Alexander wrote her second novel in a Starbucks coffeehouse, she moved to Chicago, where in 2010 she married British crime novelist Andrew Grant, brother of bestselling author Lee Child.
In 2007, according to Library Journal, Minotaur Books "lured her away" from William Morrow.

The ''Lady Emily'' series

The Lady Emily series, set in a time between the 1890s and 1900s and spanning across cities throughout Europe, follows the adventures of Lady Emily and her husband Colin Hargreaves.
;Novels and short stories

Non-''Lady Emily'' short story works

  • "Preparations" – Kwik Krimes
  • "Before a Bohemian Scandal" – Echoes of Sherlock Holmes
  • "" – ''Private Investigations''

    Miscellaneous works

  • Elizabeth: The Golden Age, novelization, ;
based on motion picture screenplay written by William Nicholson and Michael Hirst;
published to coincide with release of 2007 film Elizabeth: The Golden Age, starring Cate Blanchett and Clive Owen.