Biography
Biography
Murphy was born and brought up in Liverpool where she gained a degree in Environmental Biology at the University of Liverpool and later an MA with Distinction in Writing at Liverpool JMU, a course on which she now lectures. She has been a countryside ranger, science teacher, dyslexia specialist and psychology student.
After a string of successful stand-alone novels, Murphy began her first series with The Dispossessed which was followed by Now You See Me, featuring fictional Merseyside detectives Jeff Rickman, Lee Foster and Naomi Hart.
Her novels have garnered critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic with The New York Times describing her prose as "skin-chilling".[1] Short-listed for the First Blood Award and the Crime Writers' Association's "Dagger in the Library", Murphy is the founder of "Murder Squad" ? a touring group of crime writers ? and a committee member of the Crime Writers' Association. She is also 2006/7 Chair of the CWA Debut Dagger.
Murphy is a contributor to both BBC Radio Merseyside's Drive Time and Radio 4's The Message.
[edit] Bibliography
[edit] Novels
Now You See Me (2005), Hodder (a Rickman and Foster novel)
The Dispossessed (Nov 2004), Hodder & Stoughton (a Rickman and Foster novel)
Weaving Shadows (2003), Hodder & Stoughton (a Clara Pascal novel)
Darkness Falls (2002), Hodder & Stoughton (a Clara Pascal novel)
Dying Embers (2000), Macmillan
Past Reason (1999), Macmillan
Desire of the Moth (1998), Macmillan
Caging the Tiger (1997), Macmillan
Goodnight, My Angel (1996), Macmillan
[edit] Short fiction
False Light (2006) in Ellery Queen Magazine
Epiphany (2006) in Ellery Queen Magazine
False Light (2004) in Liverpool Stories, Comma Press
Big End Blues and A Certain Resolution (2001) in Murder Squad Anthology, Flambard
[edit] References
^ Stasio, Marilyn. "Crime", "New York Times", July 11, 2004. Accessed July 11, 2004.
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Biography
Margaret Murphy
Biography
Murphy was born and brought up in Liverpool where she gained a degree in Environmental Biology at the University of Liverpool and later an MA with Distinction in Writing at Liverpool JMU, a course on which she now lectures. She has been a countryside ranger, science teacher, dyslexia specialist and psychology student.
After a string of successful stand-alone novels, Murphy began her first series with The Dispossessed which was followed by Now You See Me, featuring fictional Merseyside detectives Jeff Rickman, Lee Foster and Naomi Hart.
Her novels have garnered critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic with The New York Times describing her prose as "skin-chilling".[1] Short-listed for the First Blood Award and the Crime Writers' Association's "Dagger in the Library", Murphy is the founder of "Murder Squad" ? a touring group of crime writers ? and a committee member of the Crime Writers' Association. She is also 2006/7 Chair of the CWA Debut Dagger.
Murphy is a contributor to both BBC Radio Merseyside's Drive Time and Radio 4's The Message.
[edit] Bibliography
[edit] Novels
Now You See Me (2005), Hodder (a Rickman and Foster novel)
The Dispossessed (Nov 2004), Hodder & Stoughton (a Rickman and Foster novel)
Weaving Shadows (2003), Hodder & Stoughton (a Clara Pascal novel)
Darkness Falls (2002), Hodder & Stoughton (a Clara Pascal novel)
Dying Embers (2000), Macmillan
Past Reason (1999), Macmillan
Desire of the Moth (1998), Macmillan
Caging the Tiger (1997), Macmillan
Goodnight, My Angel (1996), Macmillan
[edit] Short fiction
False Light (2006) in Ellery Queen Magazine
Epiphany (2006) in Ellery Queen Magazine
False Light (2004) in Liverpool Stories, Comma Press
Big End Blues and A Certain Resolution (2001) in Murder Squad Anthology, Flambard
[edit] References
^ Stasio, Marilyn. "Crime", "New York Times", July 11, 2004. Accessed July 11, 2004.
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- Nick Hornby
Nick Hornby (born 17 April 1957 in Redhill, Surrey, England) is an English novelist and essayist. He is best known for the novels High Fidelity, About a Boy and the football memoir Fever Pitch. In his work he frequently touches upon sports, music, and...
- C. S. Forester
Cecil Scott Forester was the pen name of Cecil Louis Troughton Smith (August 27, 1899 ? April 2, 1966), an English novelist who rose to fame with tales of adventure with military themes. His most notable works were the 11-book Horatio Hornblower series,...
- Carol Ann Duffy
Carol Ann Duffy (born December 23, 1955) is a British poet, playwright and freelance writer born in Glasgow, Scotland. She grew up in Staffordshire and graduated in philosophy from Liverpool University in 1977. Carol Ann Duffy was awarded an OBE in 1995,...
- Joseph Connolly (author)
Joseph Connolly (born March 23, 1950) is a British journalist, novelist, non-fiction writer and bibliophile. For many years Connolly was the proprietor of The Flask Bookshop in Hampstead, London. Having started writing fiction rather late in life, he...