Lesley Grant-Adamson

Lesley Grant-Adamson (born Lesley Heycock, 26 November 1942 – 29 July 2026) was a British writer of mystery fiction and 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 wrote 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 wrote 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.

Grant-Adamson died on 29 July 2026, aged 83.

Works List taken from:

Rain Morgan novels Patterns in the Dust (1985) ( 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) (a.k.a. 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)