Lexie Elliott
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File:Lexie Elliott at STABF (cropped).jpgLexie Elliott is a Scottish mystery and thriller author whose books include The French Girl and How To Kill Your Best Friend, which was a Richard & Judy Book Club pick.{{cite news |title=Richard & Judy Introduce How to Kill Your Best Friend by Lexie Elliott |url=https://blog.whsmith.co.uk/richard-judy-introduce-how-to-kill-your-best-friend-by-lexie-elliott/ |access-date=27 November 2023}} She grew up in Braco, Perthshire.{{cite web |url=https://www.sundaypost.com/fp/lexie-elliot/|title = Champion swimmer turned thriller writer Lexie Elliott on cross-Channel ordeal| date=18 July 2022 }} The Sunday Post. Retrieved 2023-06-20.
Biography
Elliott graduated from the University of Oxford with a doctorate in theoretical physics.{{cite web |url=https://bookclubbabble.com/lexie-elliott-talks-about-her-fabulous-psychological-thriller-bright-and-deadly-things/|title = Lexie Elliott Talks About Her Psychological Thriller Bright and Deadly Things| date=14 February 2023 }} Book Club Babble. Retrieved 2023-06-20. After losing her banking job during the 2008 financial crisis, she started working on her first novel, The French Girl.{{cite news |last1=Ledbetter |first1=Christina |title=Lexie Elliott's The French Girl is tangled mystery |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/review-lexie-elliotts-the-french-girl-is-tangled-mystery/2018/02/20/51bd4d82-1662-11e8-930c-45838ad0d77a_story.html |access-date=27 November 2023 |newspaper=The Washington Post}}
Elliott is a triathlete, marathoner, and open-water swimmer.
She has represented Great Britain in the Europe Triathlon Multisport Championships. Elliott has swum the English Channel twice, in 2000 as part of a relay team and as a solo swim in 2007.
Elliott lives in London, England with her two children and her husband.
Bibliography
Elliott's novels have been published by Berkley Books in the US, and Corvus in the UK.
- The French Girl (2018)
- The Missing Years (2019){{cite news |last1=Flood |first1=Alison |title=The best recent thrillers - review roundup |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jun/17/those-people-the-missing-years-never-be-broken-joe-country-thrillers-of-the-month |access-date=27 November 2023 |work=The Guardian}}
- How To Kill Your Best Friend (2021)
- Bright and Deadly Things (2023){{cite news |last1=Edwards |first1=Donna |title=Review: Paranoia-racked thriller 'Bright and Deadly Things' |url=https://apnews.com/article/book-reviews-entertainment-0490bbb3420dfbb76ea7dbfc75ea09ce |access-date=27 November 2023 |publisher=Associated Press}}{{cite news |last1=Sanderson |first1=Mark |title=Crime Club |url=https://link.thetimes.co.uk/view/61951ac3a80ab07446ba88b6i5bn1.6lt/97a563ad |access-date=27 November 2023 |publisher=The Sunday Times}}
References
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Further reading
- [https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/lexie-elliott/how-to-kill-your-best-friend/ Kirkus Review]
- [https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-399-58693-4 Publishers Weekly]
- [https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780593098691 Publishers Weekly]
- [https://www.sundaypost.com/fp/lexie-elliot/ The Sunday Post]
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Category:Scottish mystery writers
Category:People from Perthshire
Category:Scottish women writers
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
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