Dorothy Simpson
Dorothy Preece Simpson (born June 20, 1933, Blaenavon, Monmouthshire, Wales) is a writer of mystery novels and winner of a Silver Dagger Award from the Crime Writers' Association of Great Britain.[1]
Biography
Simpson graduated from the University of Bristol and taught English and French from 1955 to 1962, she married in 1961 and worked as a marriage guidance counsellor from 1969 to 1982, beginning writing in 1975. Severe Repetitive Stress Injury forced her to stop writing in 2000. She and her husband live in Maidstone, Kent.[1]
Writing
Her first novel was published in 1977 but her next three manuscripts were rejected. She determined to "devote her next efforts to creating an intriguing murder mystery staged around an engaging sleuth", and came up with Inspector Luke Thanet and his colleague Sergeant Michael Lineham and wrote The Night She Died, the first of a series of fifteen novels.[1]
Bibliography
Inspector Thanet series
- The Night She Died (1981)
- Six Feet Under (1982)
- Puppet for a Corpse (1983)
- Close Her Eyes (1984)
- Last Seen Alive (1985) - winner of a Silver Dagger
- Dead On Arrival (1986)
- Element of Doubt (1987)
- Suspicious Death (1988)
- Dead By Morning (1989)
- Doomed to Die (1991)
- Wake the Dead (1992)
- No Laughing Matter (1993)
- A Day for Dying (1995)
- Once Too Often (1998)
- Dead and Gone (1999)
Other novels
- Harbingers of Fear (1977)