JESSICA MANN

According to the bio on her website: "My novels aren’t autobiographical but they are set in the world I know and places I have lived in (Cornwall, Edinburgh, Leicester (which I called Ferriby) and London) or visited, such as Egypt or the Isles of Scilly. Some books have domestic settings, some archaeological, and some books combine mystery plots with with political themes or historical sections. There’s no running hero or heroine, except for the six books featuring the archaeologist Tamara Hoyland, first encountered in Funeral Sites and my latest book, The Stroke of Death. Other characters reappear, including Professor Thea Crawford and the psychiatrist Dr Fidelis Berlin, first met in A Private Inquiry. You can catch up with her in The Voice From The Grave, and Dead Woman Walking.

Jessica in 1990

AND FACT:

I’m also a journalist, broadcaster and author of non-fiction. I have contributed features, columns, think-pieces, travel articles and book reviews to many magazines and newspapers including the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, Daily Mail, Guardian, The Western Morning News, House & Garden, The Oldie, Standpoint etc. I am the crime fiction reviewer for The Literary Review.

I was born in London, my parents Jewish (though non-practising) refugees from Nazi Germany. During the war, my big brother and I, aged 4 and 2, were sent as evacuees to Canada and America, returning to London in 1943. I went to St.Paul’s Girls’ School, before studying Archaeology at Newnham College, Cambridge and Law at Leicester University. My husband, the archaeologist Professor Charles Thomas, and I had two sons, two daughters and 11 grandchildren. We lived in Edinburgh, Leicester and for 45 years in Cornwall. After Charles died in 2016, I moved back to London."