Lindsay Ashford
Lindsay Ashford is a British crime novelist and journalist. Her style writing has been compared to that of Vivien Armstrong, Linda Fairstein and Frances Fyfield. Many of her books follow the character of Megan Rhys, an investigative psychologist.
Raised in Wolverhampton, Ashford became the first woman to graduate from Queens' College, Cambridge in its 550 year history. She gained a degree in Criminology. Ashford was then employed as a reporter for the BBC before becoming a freelance journalist, writing for a number of national magazines and newspapers. In 1996, Ashford took a crime writing course run by the Arvon Foundation. Her first book, Frozen, was published by Honno in 2003.
Strange Blood was shortlisted for the 2006 Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award.[1] She wrote The Rubber Woman for the Quick Reads series in 2007.
Her latest novel, The Mysterious Death of Miss Austen is due out in October 2011.
Ashford divides her time between a home on the Welsh coast near Aberystwyth, Wales and the village of Chawton in Hampshire .[2]
Bibliography
- Frozen, 2003, Honno, ISBN 9781870206822
- Also published in the United States, August, St Martin's Press
- Death Studies, June 2006, Honno, ISBN 9781870206860
- Strange Days Indeed: Autobiographical Stories About Motherhood by Women ... (edited with Rebecca Tope), March 2007, Honno, ISBN 9781870206839
- The Rubber Woman, March 2007, Accent Press, ISBN 9781905170883
- Strange Blood, July 2007, Honno, ISBN 9781870206846
- The Killer Inside, March 2008, Honno, ISBN 9781870206921
Also contributed to:
- Written in Blood - A Honno Crime Anthology, February 2009, Honno, ISBN 9781906784010
External links
References
- ^ "Strange Blood - Lindsay Ashford". IT'S A CRIME! (OR A MYSTERY...). 2006-10-26.
- ^ A Writer's Trials, BBC Wales