List Of Writers

GRANT–ADAMSON, LESLEY

22 High Street, Debenham, Suffolk IP14 6QJ
Tel and fax: (01728) 861601
Mobile: 0772 073461
Email: lesley@crimefiction.co.uk
Web: www.crimefiction.co.uk

Novelist, short story writer and travel writer. Educated in Wales and London. Feature writer on London staff of the Guardian before publishing first of 15 novels in 1985. Short stories broadcast on BBC and published in New Welsh Review, Ellery Queen, as well as other literary journals, popular magazines and anthologies in various countries. Non fiction includes A Season in Spain (Pavilion 1994), a portrait of the Alpujarra region of Andalusia written with Andrew Grant-Adamson, and Writing Crime and Suspense Fiction. She was a Project Fellow at Homerton and Newnham College 2003/4, employed to write a book entitled How to Write Practically Anything.  

Selected Publications:

Novels:
Patterns in the Dust (Faber, 1985)
The Face of Death (Faber, 1985)
Guilty Knowledge (Faber, 1986)
Wild Justice  (Faber, 1987)
Threatening Eye (Faber, 1988)
Curse the Darkness (Faber, 1990)
Flynn (Faber, 1991)
A Life of Adventure (Faber, 1992)
The Dangerous Edge (Faber, 1993)
Dangerous Games (Hodder and Stoughton, 1994)
Wish You Were Here (Hodder and Stoughton, 1995)
Evil Acts (Hodder and Stoughton, 1996)
The Girl in the Case (Hodder and Stoughton, 1997)
Lipstick and Lies (Hodder and Stoughton, 1998)
Undertow (Hodder and Stoughton, 1999) 
Music to be Murdered By (International Masters Publishing, 2001)

Non-fiction:
Writing Crime and Suspense Fiction (Teach Yourself Educational Series) (Hodder and Stoughton, 1996)
Writing Crime Fiction (Teach Yourself Educational Series) (Hodder and Stoughton, 2003)

Short stories:
Members of the Jury
A Reasonable Woman
Ex Voto
Two Birds, One Stone
Black Tulip
Death in the Sun
Cuckoo in the Wood
This Way Nobody gets the Blame
Scene of the Crime
Lilac Time
6 to 5 against

Contributed to:
A Season in Spain (co-writer) (Pavilion 1994)



Eligible Writers on Tour subjects offered:
1. readings from and discussion of own novels, short stories and travel writing
2. creative writing workshops on writing the nove
3. workshops specifically about writing crime fiction
4. various talks about the crime fiction genre (eg the use of violence in crime fiction; the enduring appeal of the genre for readers and writers alike; the influence of film on its development).

AGE RANGE: Adults