Books

I have thirteen books out there in the bookshops, all currently in print. Eleven of them feature Kate Ivory, a historical novelist living in Oxford who frequently – and often unwillingly – finds herself involved in a crime. The setting for these crime novels is the Oxford I have come to know, with its colleges, libraries, parks and waterways. The characters, whether academics, shopkeepers or novelists, come out of my imagination – but believe me, they are realistic.

In addition to these I have written two suspense novels which are not in the series. Deathspell is about a strange child who decides to get rid of her bullying stepfather. The Rainbow Sign tells of a tragedy that happened thirty years ago in the Middle East and which is still poisoning the lives of a family in present-day Oxford.

Death and the Oxford Box was published earlier this year in German by Luebbe Bastei, and they have plans to publish Oxford Exit, Oxford Mourning and Oxford Fall, too. The first two books in the Kate Ivory series will also be published in Japanese by Kodansha in the near future.