Lesley Grant-Adamson

Lesley Grant-Adamson (born Lesley Heycock, 26 November 1942) is a British writer of mystery fiction and former journalist.

Life and career
A native of London, Grant-Adamson attended schools in that city and in Wales before embarking on a journalistic career in the early 1960s; she held a string of magazine and newspaper positions before becoming a feature writer with The Guardian, a job she left in 1980 to become a full-time freelance writer. Besides crime novels, she has written television scripts, poetry, magazine pieces, and short stories. Her novels feature Rain Morgan, a gossip columnist; private detective Laura Flynn; and American conman Jim Rush. She has written a number of non-series novels and several works of non-fiction as well. Her novel Patterns in the Dust was nominated for a John Creasey Award for Best First Novel.

Works
List taken from:

Rain Morgan novels

 * Patterns in the Dust (1985) (aka Death on Widow's Walk)
 * The Face of Death (1985)
 * Guilty Knowledge (1986)
 * Wild Justice (1987)
 * Curse the Darkness (1990)

Jim Rush novels

 * A Life of Adventure (1992)
 * Dangerous Games (1994)

Laura Flynn novel

 * Flynn (1991) (aka Too Many Questions)

Non-series novels

 * Threatening Eye (1988)
 * The Dangerous Edge (1993)
 * Wish You Were Here (1995)
 * Evil Acts (1996)
 * The Girl in the Case (1997)
 * Lipstick and Lies (1998)
 * Undertow (1999)

Non-fiction

 * A Season in Spain (1995) (with Andrew Grant-Adamson)
 * Writing Crime and Suspense Fiction (1996)
 * Teach Yourself Writing Crime Fiction (2003)