Clive Leo McNeir

Clive Leo McNeir is a British linguist, lexicographer, and author of a series of crime novels. As a director of The European Language Initiative, he compiled and edited 12 dictionaries in 15 languages, the first one being published by Cassell in 1993.

Education
McNeir received a bachelor's degree in French and German from the Queen Mary University of London, where he studied from 1963 to 1967.

Personal life
He and his wife, cookery writer Cassandra, live in a 300-year-old cottage in rural Northamptonshire.

Dictionaries and reference works

 * Cassell Multilingual Dictionary of Local Government and Business: The European Language Initiative
 * Geiriadur Terminoleg Trefniadaeth: Dictionary of Procedural Terms (1999)
 * Thesaurus of the Gaelic Language (2011)

Crime novels
Marnie Walker Series
 * Getaway with murder (2000)
 * Death in Little Venice (2001)
 * Kiss and Tell (2003)
 * Devil in the Detail (2004)
 * No Secrets (2006)
 * Sally Ann's Summer (2007)
 * Smoke and Mirrors (2009)
 * Gifthorse (2011)
 * Stick in the Mud (2012)
 * Smoke Without Fire (2015)
 * Witching hour (2017)
 * To Have and to Hold (2019)
 * Beyond the Grave (2021)