Jessica Mann

Jessica Mann (born 1937) is a British writer. As a novelist she specialises in the mystery and suspense genres, and 21 of her crime novels have been published since 1971. She has also written several non-fiction books, including Out of Harm's Way, an account of the overseas evacuation of children from Britain in World War II.

Biography

Born in London, Mann was educated at St Paul's Girls' School and Newnham College, Cambridge, where she read Archaeology, and the University of Leicester, from which she has a degree in Law.[1] She has written features, comment and reviews for the Literary Review magazine, The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph, Western Morning News, House & Garden and other publications. She has appeared on TV and radio programmes including Any Questions? and Question Time and represented the South West on Round Britain Quiz.

She lives near Truro in Cornwall and was married to the archaeologist and historian Charles Thomas until he died in 2016.[2] The couple married a week after Mann completed her Cambridge finals in 1959, and had two sons and two daughters.[3][4]

Books

  • A Charitable End (1971)
  • Mrs Knox's Profession (1972)
  • The Only Security (1973)
  • The Sticking Place (1974)
  • Captive Audience (1975)
  • The Eighth Deadly Sin (1976)
  • The Sting of Death (1978)
  • Deadlier than the Male (non-fiction, 1981)
  • Funeral Sites (1981)
  • No Man's Island (1983)
  • Grave Goods (1985)
  • A Kind of Healthy Grave (1986)
  • Death Beyond the Nile (1988)
  • Faith Hope and Homicide (1991)
  • Telling Only Lies (1992)
  • A Private Inquiry (1996)
  • Hanging Fire (1997)
  • The Survivor’s Revenge (1998)
  • Under a Dark Sun (2000)
  • The Voice from the Grave (2002)
  • Out of Harm's Way (non-fiction, 2005)
  • The Mystery Writer (2006)
  • Godrevy Light (non-fiction with Charles Thomas, 2009, Twelveheads Press ISBN 9780906294703)
  • The Fifties Mystique (non-fiction, 2012, Quartet Books) (2nd edition, 2013, The Cornovia Press ISBN 9781908878076)
  • Dead Woman Walking (2013, The Cornovia Press ISBN 9781908878069)

References

  1. ↑ Mann, Jessica. "Biography". Jessica Mann Writer of Crime and Suspense Novels. Retrieved 21 March 2009.
  2. ↑ "Professor Charles Thomas". The Times. London. 11 April 2016. Retrieved 13 April 2016.
  3. ↑ Mann, Jessica (28 April 2012). "What do you mean, the good old days?". The Guardian.
  4. ↑ Who's Who

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