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Jessica Mann

{{short description|English novelist}}

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Jessica Mann (13 September 1937 – 10 July 2018)[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2018/07/17/jessica-mann-crime-writer-journalist-broadcaster-obituary/ Jessica Mann, crime writer, journalist and broadcaster – obituary] The Daily Telegraph, 17 July 2018. Retrieved 18 July 2018. was a British writer and novelist. She also wrote several non-fiction books, including Out of Harm's Way, an account of the overseas evacuation of children from Britain in World War II.

Biography

Born in London, Mann was educated at St Paul's Girls' School and Newnham College, Cambridge, where she read Archaeology and Anglo-Saxon Studies, graduating in 1959. and the University of Leicester, from which she had a degree in Law.{{cite web |last=Mann |first=Jessica |url=http://www.jessicamann.net/biography.htm |title=Biography |work=Jessica Mann Writer of Crime and Suspense Novels |accessdate=21 March 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140523063917/http://www.jessicamann.net/biography.htm |archive-date=23 May 2014 |url-status=dead }} She wrote features, comment and reviews for the Literary Review magazine, The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph, Western Morning News, House & Garden and other publications. She appeared on television programmes such as Question Time and represented the South West on radio's Round Britain Quiz. As a novelist, she specialised in the mystery and suspense genres; her 22 novels were published from 1971 to 2016.{{cite news|last=Tusa|first=John|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jul/23/jessica-mann-obituary|title=Jessica Mann obituary|work=The Guardian|date=23 July 2018|accessdate=24 July 2018}}

Mann lived near Truro in Cornwall and was married to the archaeologist and historian Charles Thomas until he died in 2016.{{cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/article/professor-charles-thomas-zc2hjxz6g|title=Professor Charles Thomas|work=The Times|location=London|date=11 April 2016|access-date=13 April 2016}} The couple married a week after Mann completed her Cambridge finals in 1959, and had two sons and two daughters.{{cite news |first=Jessica |last=Mann |url= https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2012/apr/28/housewives-fifties-good-old-days |title=What do you mean, the good old days? |newspaper=The Guardian |date=28 April 2012}}Who's Who{{clarify|date=January 2015}}

==Books==

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  • A Charitable End (1971)
  • Mrs Knox's Profession (1972)
  • The Only Security (1973)
  • The Sticking Place (1974)
  • Captive Audience (1975)
  • The Eighth Deadly Sin (1976)
  • The Sting of Death (1978)
  • Deadlier than the Male (non-fiction, 1981)
  • Funeral Sites (1981)
  • No Man's Island (1983)
  • Grave Goods (1985)
  • A Kind of Healthy Grave (1986)

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  • Death Beyond the Nile (1988)
  • Faith Hope and Homicide (1991)
  • Telling Only Lies (1992)
  • A Private Inquiry (1996)
  • Hanging Fire (1997)
  • The Survivor’s Revenge (1998)
  • Under a Dark Sun (2000)
  • The Voice from the Grave (2002)
  • Out of Harm's Way (non-fiction, 2005)

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  • The Mystery Writer (2006)
  • Godrevy Light (non-fiction with Charles Thomas, 2009, Twelveheads Press {{ISBN|9780906294703}})
  • The Fifties Mystique (non-fiction, 2012, Quartet Books) (2nd edition, 2013, The Cornovia Press {{ISBN|9781908878076}})
  • Dead Woman Walking (2013, The Cornovia Press {{ISBN|9781908878069}})

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References

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External links

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Category:1937 births

Category:2018 deaths

Category:20th-century English novelists

Category:21st-century English novelists

Category:Alumni of Newnham College, Cambridge

Category:English mystery writers

Category:English women mystery writers

Category:20th-century English women writers

Category:21st-century English women writers

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