British author (born 1944)

Gillian Linscott (born 27 September 1944) is a British author. She studied at Somerville College, Oxford.

She worked as a journalist for the Liverpool Daily Post, Birmingham Post, The Guardian and BBC, before becoming a novelist, specialising in crime writing. Her novel Absent Friends won the 2000 British Crime Writers' *ociation prize The Ellis Peters Historical Dagger.

She is married to author Tony Geraghty and lives in Herefordshire.

Contents

• 1 Bibliography
  • 1.1 Caro Pea*
• 2 Prizes
• 3 References
• 4 External links

Bibliography

• A Healthy Body (1984)
• Murder Makes Tracks (1985)
• Knightfall (1986)
• A Whiff Of Sulphur (1987)
• Unknown Hand (1988)
• Murder, I Presume (1990)
• Sister Beneath the Sheet (1991)
• Hanging on the Wire (1992)
• Stage Fright (1993)
• Widow's Peak (1994) (a.k.a. An Easy Day for a Lady)
• Crown Witness (1995)
• Dead Man's Music (1996) (a.k.a. Dead Man's Sweetheart)
• Dance On Blood (1998)
• Absent Friends (1999)
• The Perfect Daughter (2000)
• Dead Man Riding (2002)
• The Garden (2003)
• Blood On The Wood (2003)

Caro Pea*

Linscott writes the Liberty Lane detective/mystery series using the pen name Caro Pea*.

1. Death At Dawn (2007) (ISBN:0007244193), in the USA as A Foreign Affair (ISBN:0061445894), and in Italy as Morte all'alba (ISBN:8862510195)
2. Death of a Dancer (2008) (ISBN:0007244207), in the USA as A Dangerous Affair (ISBN:006144748X)
3. A Corpse in Shining Armour (2009) (ISBN:0007244231), in the USA as A Family Affair (ISBN:0061447498)
4. When the Devil Drives (2011) (ISBN:178029011X)
5. Keeping Bad Company (2012) (ISBN:1780290209)
6. The Path of the Wicked (2013) (ISBN:1780290411)

Prizes

• The Ellis Peters Historical Dagger, 2000, for Absent Friends
• The Herodotus Award for the Best International Historical Mystery Novel (2000), for Absent Friends

References

External links

• Author web site
• FantasticFiction: Gillian Linscott
• twobooks.co.uk: Gillian Linscott
• New Statesman: "Dawn raids: A guide to the etiquette" by Gillian Linscott, 1998
• New Statesman: "It can't happen here - can it?" by Gillian Linscott, 1999
• The story behind Friends in High Places - Essay by Caro Pea*, 2015