Gillian Linscott

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Gillian Linscott honed her teeth on crime and violence while working as a journalist for the The Guardian and The BBC.

Her greatest popularity has come with her historical series that features a suffragette detective, Nell Bray. Linscott's work in that series won her an Ellis Peters Historical Dagger Award.

Born in 1944, Linscott attended Maidenhead High School and Somerville College, Oxford.

Bibliography

Birdie Linnett
Nell Bray
A Healthy Body
Sister Beneath the Sheet
Murder Makes Tracks
Hanging on the Wire
A Whiff of Sulphur
Stage Fright
Widow's Peak
Others:
Crown Witness
Midwinter Mysteries
Dead Man's Music
More Murders for the Fireside
Dance on Blood
Dead Giveaway
Absent Friends
Murder I Presume
The Perfect Daughter
Knightfall
Dead Man Riding
Unknown Hand
Blood on the Wood
The Garden