Ann Granger

Ann Granger performing in Tallinn Literature Festival

Patricia Ann Granger (born 1939) is a British crime writer.

Granger was born in Portsmouth, England. She took a Modern Languages degree at the University of London, taught English for a year in France, but eventually went to work in the visa sections of British consulates and embassies in Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and Austria. She married a work colleague in the foreign service and went with him to Zambia and Germany before returning to live in England with their two children.

Her first novels were historical romances published under the nom de plume Ann Hulme. After her return to England, her first crime novel, Say It With Poison, was published in 1991.

Bibliography

Historical romances (selection)

• A Poor Relation (1979)
• Summer Heiress (1982)
• The Garden of the Azure Dragon (1986)
• The Unexpected American (1989)
• A Scandalous Bargain (1990)
• False Fortune (1991)

Mitchell & Markby mysteries

• Say It with Poison (1991)
• A Season For Murder (1991)
• Cold in the Earth (1992)
• Murder Among Us (1992)
• Where Old Bones Lie (1993)
• Flowers For His Funeral (1994)
• A Fine Place For Death (1994)
• Candle For a Corpse (1995)
• A Word After Dying (1996)
• A Touch of Mortality (1996)
• Call the Dead Again (1998)
• Beneath these Stones (1999)
• Shades of Murder (2000)
• A Restless Evil (2002)
• That Way Murder Lies (2004) (the final Mitchell & Markby novel)

Fran Varady mysteries

• Asking for Trouble (1997)
• Keeping Bad Company (1997)
• Running Scared (1998)
• Risking It All (2001)
• Watching Out (2003)
• Mixing With Murder (2005)
• Rattling the Bones (2007)

Lizzie Martin Mysteries

• A Rare Interest in Corpses (2006)
• A Mortal Curiosity (2008)
• A Better Quality of Murder (2010)
• A Particular Eye for Villainy (2012)

Campbell & Carter mysteries

• Mud, Muck and Dead things (2009)
• Rack, Ruin and Murder (2011)

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