Patricia Ann Granger (born 1939) is a British
crime writer
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.
Granger was born in
Portsmouth
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, England. She took a Modern Languages degree at the
University of London
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, taught English for a year in France, but eventually went to work in the
visa
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sections of British
consulate
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s and
embassies
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in
Yugoslavia
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,
Czechoslovakia
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and Austria. She married a colleague in the foreign service and went with him to
Zambia
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and Germany before returning to live in England with their two children.
Her first novels were
historical
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romance
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Common meanings
* Romance (love), emotional attraction towards another person and the courtship behaviors undertaken to express the feelings
* Romance languages, ...
s published under the ''nom de plume'' Ann Hulme. After her return to England, her first
crime novel
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, ''Say It with Poison'', was published in
1991
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.
Bibliography
Historical romances (selection)
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A Poor Relation
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'' (1979)
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Summer Heiress'' (1982)
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The Garden of the Azure Dragon'' (1986)
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The Unexpected American
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'' (1989)
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A Scandalous Bargain
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'' (1990)
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False Fortune'' (1991)
Mitchell & Markby mysteries
*''Say It with Poison'' (1991)
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A Season For Murder'' (1991)
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Cold in the Earth'' (1992)
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Murder Among Us'' (1992)
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Where Old Bones Lie'' (1993)
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Flowers For His Funeral'' (1994)
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A Fine Place For Death'' (1994)
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Candle For a Corpse'' (1995)
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A Word After Dying'' (1996)
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A Touch of Mortality'' (1996)
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Call the Dead Again'' (1998)
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Beneath these Stones'' (1999)
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Shades of Murder'' (2000)
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A Restless Evil'' (2002)
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That Way Murder Lies'' (2004) (the final Mitchell & Markby novel)
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Deadly Company'' (2022)
Fran Varady mysteries
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Asking for Trouble
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Cast
* Max Miller as Di ...
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Keeping Bad Company
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'' (1997)
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Running Scared'' (1998)
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'' (2001)
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Watching Out'' (2003)
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Mixing With Murder'' (2005)
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Rattling the Bones'' (2007)
Ben Ross & Lizzie Martin mysteries
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A Rare Interest in Corpses'' (2006)
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A Mortal Curiosity'' (2008)
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A Better Quality of Murder'' (2010)
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A Particular Eye for Villainy
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'' (2012)
* ''The Testimony of the Hanged Man'' (2014)
* ''The Dead Woman of Deptford'' (2016)
* ''The Murderer's Apprentice'' (2019)
* ''The Truth-Seeker's Wife'' (2021)
* ''The Old Rogue of Limehouse'' (2023)
Campbell & Carter mysteries
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Mud, Muck and Dead things'' (2009)
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Rack, Ruin and Murder'' (2011)
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Bricks and Mortality
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'' (2013)
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Dead in the Water'' (2015)
*''Rooted in Evil'' (2017)
*''An Unfinished Murder'' (2018) (featuring Mitchell & Markby)
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A Matter of Murder'' (2020)
Short Story Collections
*''Mystery in the Making'' (2021)
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Granger, Ann
1939 births
Living people
English crime fiction writers
Alumni of the University of London
Members of the Detection Club
English women novelists
Women mystery writers