June Thomson (also known as June Valerie Thomson), (born 1930, in Rettendon, Essex, United Kingdom) is a detective novelist. A former teacher, she was educated at Chelmsford High School. She is the creator of the Chief Inspector Jack Finch (Inspector Rudd in American editions) and Sergeant Tom Boyce series of novels. Since 1990 she also wrote a series of six Sherlock Holmes pastiche anthologies of short stories. Her works have been translated into many languages. June Thomson currently lives in St. Albans in Hertfordshire and is the mother of the philosophy writer Garrett Thomson. Her other son is Paul Thomson. Some of her books are: "Death Cap", "Not One of Us", "The Long Revenge", "Case Closed", "A Question of Identity", "Deadly Relations", "Alibi in Time", Shadow of a Doubt", "To Make a Killing", "Portrait of Lilith", "Sound of Evidence", "No Flowers by Request" and "The Secret Files of Sherlock Holmes". Thomson has written twenty-four crime novel, eighteen of those are of Detective Chief Inspector Jack Finch. "Few can match this author's careful characterization and precise settings"-Observer.