Jessica Mann

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Jessica Mann (born 1937, London) is a British writer. As a novelist she specialises in the mystery and suspense genres, having published 21 crime novels since 1971. She has also written several non-fiction books, including Out of Harm's Way, the story of the overseas evacuation of children during World War 2.

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 others. 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 is married to the archaeologist and historian Charles Thomas;[2] the couple married a week after Mann completed her Cambridge finals in 1959, and have two sons and two daughters.[3][4]

Books by Jessica Mann

  • 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. ↑ Jessica Mann's biography, Official website
  2. ↑ "Jessica Mann biography (official website)". Retrieved 21 March 2009. 
  3. ↑ Jessica Mann "What do you mean, the good old days? The Guardian, 28 April 2012
  4. ↑ Who's Who

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