Gillian Linscott

Gillian Linscott (born 27 September 1944) is a British author. She studied at Somerville College, Oxford.

She worked as a journalist for the Liverpool Daily Post, Birmingham Post, The Guardian and BBC, before becoming a novelist, specialising in crime writing. Her novel Absent Friends won the 2000 British Crime Writers' Association prize The Ellis Peters Historical Dagger.

She is married to author Tony Geraghty and lives in Herefordshire. Death At Dawn (2007) , in the US as A Foreign Affair , and in Italy as Morte all'alba Death of a Dancer (2008) , in the US as A Dangerous Affair A Corpse in Shining Armour (2009) , in the US as A Family Affair When the Devil Drives (2011) Keeping Bad Company (2012) The Path of the Wicked (2013) Friends in High Places (2015)

Prizes The Ellis Peters Historical Dagger, 2000, for Absent Friends The Herodotus Award for the Best International Historical Mystery Novel (2000), for Absent Friends