Ian Edward Sansom (born 3 December 1966 in Essex, England) is the author of the Mobile Library Mystery Series. As of 2016, he has written four books in a series that will comprise a projected forty-four novels. He is a frequent contributor to, and critic for, ''

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'' and the ''

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''. He studied at both

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and

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, where he was a fellow of Emmanuel College. He is a

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in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the

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and teaches in its Writing Program.

Personal life

Ian Sansom is married and has three children. They reside in

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Bibliography

*''The Truth About Babies: From A-Z'' (2002) *''Ring Road'' (2004) (US title - ''The Impartial Recorder)'' *''The Case of the Missing Books'' (2006) *''Mr Dixon Disappears'' (2006) *''The Delegates' Choice'' (2007) (US title - ''The Book Stops Here)'' *''The Enthusiast's Field Guide to Poetry'' (2007) (editor) *''The Bad Book Affair'' (2009) *''Paper: An Elegy'' (2012) *''The Norfolk Mystery'' (1990) *''Death in Devon'' (2015) *''Westmorland Alone'' (2016) *''Essex poison'' (2017) *''December Stories I'' (2018) No Alibis Press *''The Sussex Murder'' (2019) *''September 1, 1939: A Biography of a Poem'' (2019) *''Reading Room: A Year of Literary Curiosities'' (2019) *''December Stories 2'' (2021)

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* 1966 births Living people English mystery writers Fellows of Emmanuel College, Cambridge Academics of Queen's University Belfast Academics of the University of Warwick {{UK-writer-stub