Gillian Linscott (born 27 September 1944) is a British author and former journalist. She studied at Somerville College, Oxford.
She worked as a journalist for the Liverpool Daily Post, Birmingham Post, The Guardian and BBC, before becoming a novelist, specialising in crime writing.page 147, Great Women Mystery Writers, 2nd Ed. by Elizabeth Blakesley Lindsay, 2007, publ. Greenwood Press, Her novel Absent Friends won the 2000 British Crime Writers' Association prize The Ellis Peters Historical Dagger.
She is married to author Tony Geraghty and lives in Herefordshire.
Bibliography A Healthy Body (1984) Murder Makes Tracks (1985) Knightfall (1986) A Whiff Of Sulphur (1987) Unknown Hand (1988) Murder, I Presume (1990) Sister Beneath the Sheet (1991) Hanging on the Wire (1992) Stage Fright (1993) Widow's Peak (1994) (a.k.a. An Easy Day for a Lady) Crown Witness (1995) Dead Man's Music (1996) (a.k.a. Dead Man's Sweetheart) Dance On Blood (1998) Absent Friends (1999) The Perfect Daughter (2000) Dead Man Riding (2002) The Garden (2003) Blood On The Wood (2003)
Caro Peacock Linscott writes the Liberty Lane detective/mystery series using the pen name Caro Peacock. Death At Dawn (2007) (), in the US as A Foreign Affair (), and in Italy as Morte all'alba () Death of a Dancer (2008) (), in the US as A Dangerous Affair () A Corpse in Shining Armour (2009) (), in the US as A Family Affair () When the Devil Drives (2011) () Keeping Bad Company (2012) () The Path of the Wicked (2013) () Friends in High Places (2015) ()
Prizes The Ellis Peters Historical Dagger, 2000, for Absent Friends The Herodotus Award for the Best International Historical Mystery Novel (2000), for Absent Friends
References
External links Author web site FantasticFiction: Gillian Linscott twobooks.co.uk: Gillian Linscott
New Statesman: "It can't happen here - can it?" by Gillian Linscott, 1999 The story behind Friends in High Places - Essay by Caro Peacock, 2015