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Frances McNeil, also writing as Frances Brody, is an English novelist and playwright, and has written extensively for radio. Early life McNeil was born in Leeds, West Yorkshire, where she now lives. She studied at Ruskin College, Oxford and has a degree in English literature and History from University of York. Writing As Frances Brody she has written a series of 1920s crime novels featuring Kate Shackleton. The sixth in the series, An Avid Reader, is set in the Leeds Library, the oldest surviving subscription library of its type in the UK. After nine books in the series Brody wrote a short story prequel, Kate Shackleton's First Case, in which the story begins in a Harrogate teashop. The twelfth book in the series (excluding "first case") was Death and the Brewery Queen, published in 2020, and the thirteenth, A Mansion for Murder, in 2022. Each book in the series is set in a specific location in Yorkshire. A Woman Unknown was shortlisted for the 2016 Simon & Schuster Mary Higgins Clark Award, the criteria for which include: "the protagonist is a nice young woman whose life is suddenly invaded". In 2021 Brody published A Murder Inside, the first in the Brackerly Prison Mysteries series set in a 1960s women's prison in Yorkshire. She wrote three novels under her own name, which were republished in 2016 under the name Frances Brody. Sisters on Bread Street is partly based on the story of her mother, who lived on Bread Street in Leeds as a child; it was published in a limited edition just after her mother's hundredth birthday, published in an expanded edition as Somewhere Behind the Morning, and republished in 2016 under its original title. Sixpence in her Shoe relates to the Leeds Children's Holiday Camp Association based at Silverdale, Lancashire, about which she has also written a factual history, Now I am a Swimmer (the title being a quote from a child's letter home). Sisters of Fortune is the tale of two girls of different financial backgrounds growing up in Leeds, and was republished as Halfpenny Dreams. Her plays include Tressell, about Robert Tressell, author of The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists. An archive of her literary papers is held by the University of Leeds. Selected publications Writing as Frances McNeil Sisters on Bread Street (Limited edition, 2003, Pavan Press, ISBN 9780952554714; published as Somewhere Behind the Morning 2006, Orion Books, ISBN 978-1407223971; republished January 2016 as Sisters on Bread Street, a Frances Brody book, Piatkus, ISBN 978-0-3494-1070-8) Sixpence in her Shoe (2007, Orion Books, ISBN 978-0752881645; republished April 2016 as a Frances Brody book, Piatkus, ISBN 978-0-3494-1071-5) Sisters of Fortune (2007, Severn House, ISBN 978-0727865847; republished July 2016 as Halfpenny Dreams, a Frances Brody book, Piatkus, ISBN 978-0-3494-1073-9) Now I am a Swimmer (2004, Pavan Press, ISBN 978-0952554721) (Non-fiction account of the Leeds Children's Holiday Camp Association) Writing as Frances Brody – the Kate Shackleton books Dying in the Wool (2009, Piatkus, ISBN 978-0-7499-4187-1) Set in the fictional village of Bridgestead, based on Cottingley A Medal for Murder (2010, Piatkus, ISBN 978-0-7499-4192-5) Set in Harrogate Murder in the Afternoon (2011, Piatkus, ISBN 978-0-7499-5482-6) Set in the fictional quarry village of Great Applewick in the Yorkshire Dales A Woman Unknown (2012, Piatkus, ISBN 978-0-7499-5492-5) Set in Leeds Murder on a Summer's Day (2013, Piatkus, ISBN 978-0-3494-0058-7) Set at Bolton Abbey Death of an Avid Reader (2014, Piatkus, ISBN 978-0-3494-0057-0) Set at the Leeds Library A Death in the Dales (2015, Piatkus, ISBN 978-0-3494-0656-5) Set in the Yorkshire Dales around Langcliffe Death at the Seaside (2016, Piatkus, ISBN 978-0349406589) Set in Whitby Death in the Stars (2017, Piatkus, ISBN 978-0349414317) Set at Giggleswick School at the time of the Solar eclipse of June 29, 1927 Kate Shackleton's First Case (2018, ebook, Little, Brown, ISBN 9780349421155) Set in Harrogate A Snapshot of Murder (2018, Piatkus, ISBN 978-0-3494-1432-4) Includes the short story Kate Shackleton's First Case; set at Ponden Hall The Body on the Train (2019, Piatkus, ISBN 9780349423074) Set in the Rhubarb Triangle featuring the early-morning train to King's Cross Death and the Brewery Queen (2020, Piatkus, ISBN 978-0-3494-2308-1), published in United States as Murder is in the Air (2020, Crooked Lane, ISBN 978-0-3494-2308-1) Set in Masham, home to Theakston Brewery and Black Sheep Brewery A Mansion for Murder (2022, Piatkus, ISBN 978-0-3494-3197-0) Set at Milner Field (now demolished) near Saltaire Writing as Frances Brody – the Brackerley Prison Mysteries A Murder Inside (29 October 2021, Piatkus, ISBN 9780349423111) References External links Official website As Frances McNeil Official website As Frances Brody. Discover the Frances Brody popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Frances Brody books.
Best Seller Frances Brody Books of 2024
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Sweet Sorrow
David RobertsA murder mystery featuring Lord Edward Corinth and Verity BrowneAugust 1939, the last hot days of a perfect English summer as the certainty of war descends. Newlyweds Lord Edward C...
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No More Dying
David RobertsA murder mystery featuring Lord Edward Corinth and Verity BrowneIt is February 1939 and Lord Edward Corinth embarks on his most important investigation yet. It is clear that Britai...
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The Quality of Mercy
David RobertsA murder mystery featuring Lord Edward Corinth and Verity BrowneWhen the Nazis seize Austria in March 1938, Verity Browne is one of the first to be deported from Vienna as a wellkn...
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Goodnight Sweetheart
Charlotte BinghamExciting and dramatic but tender and heartfelt; this is a novel that you will return to again and again. From the million copy and Sunday Times bestselling author Charlotte Bingham...
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Blotto, Twinks and the Intimate Revue
Simon BrettA quick trip to the capital goes horribly wrong when Blotto and Twinks get accidentally involved in London's criminal underworld . . .It starts innocently enough at the intimate re...
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Blotto, Twinks and the Great Road Race
Simon Brett'One of British crime's most assured craftsmen . . . perfect entertainment' GuardianOnce again, the plumbing at Tawcester Towers is causing consternation for the Dowager Duchess, s...
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Bones of the Buried
David RobertsA murder mystery featuring Lord Edward Corinth and Verity Browne.After six months in New York, Lord Edward returns to London only for his old sparring partner, Verity Browne, to co...
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Lois the Witch
Elizabeth GaskellFear of Satan becomes murder in the name of God.Newly orphaned, the Godfearing and heartbroken Lois is sent across the Atlantic to live with her uncle’s family in Salem, but on her...
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The Mirror Dance
Catriona McPherson'The everwitty McPherson has outdone herself' Scottish Field'All the wit and clever plotting fans of Christie could want' My Weekly SpecialWinner of Left Coast Crime's Lefty Award ...
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Something Wicked
David RobertsA murder mystery featuring Lord Edward Corinth and Verity BrowneReturning from Prague with suspected tuberculosis, Verity Browne checks into a private clinic on HenleyonThames the...
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The Enchanted
Charlotte BinghamExciting and dramatic but tender and heartfelt; this is a novel that you will return to again and again. From the million copy and Sunday Times bestselling author Charlotte Bingham...
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The Magic Hour
Charlotte BinghamExciting and dramatic but tender and heartfelt; this is a novel that you will return to again and again. From the million copy and Sunday Times bestselling author Charlotte Bingham...
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The White Marriage
Charlotte BinghamFans of Louise Douglas and Dinah Jeffries will love this captivating novel about the destruction of innocence from million copy and Sunday Times bestselling author Charlotte Bingha...
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Blotto, Twinks and the Suspicious Guests
Simon Brett'Murder most enjoyable' Colin Dexter'What? You mean the earl does it for money? That's way beyond the barbed wire!' This explosion of disgust from Blotto is provoked when Twinks ...
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The Love Knot
Charlotte BinghamThree friends make their mark on the world in this captivating and moving saga. From the million copy and Sunday Times bestselling author Charlotte Bingham, for fans of Louise Doug...
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A Grave Man
David RobertsA murder mystery featuring Lord Edward Corinth and Verity Browne.Verity Browne and Lord Edward Corinth are attending a memorial in Westminster when the service is interrupted by a ...
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Child of All Nations
Irmgard KeunKully knows some things you don’t learn at school. She knows the right way to roll a cigarette and pack a suitcase. She knows that cars are more dangerous than lions. She knows you...
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Stardust
Charlotte BinghamFans of Louise Douglas and Dinah Jeffries will love this wonderfully evocative and enthralling romantic saga by the million copy and Sunday Times bestselling author Charlotte Bingh...
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Dangerous Deception at Honeychurch Hall
Hannah Dennison'Just the thing to chase the blues away' M. C. BeatonAll's fair in love . . . and antiques wars!Things are going well for Kat Stanford; not only is her antiques business thriving, ...
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A Study in Scarlet
Arthur Conan DoyleWhen Dr John Watson takes rooms in Baker Street with amateur detective Sherlock Holmes, he has no idea that he is about to enter a shadowy world of criminality and violence. Accomp...
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Agatha Raisin und der tote Kaplan
M.C. Beaton & Sabine SchilaskyAgatha ist kreuzunglücklich, nachdem James sie verlassen hat. Erst die Ankunft des neuen Kaplans kann sie aus der miesen Stimmung herausreißen. Mit seinem blonden Haar, den blauen ...
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Ghost Of Whitechapel
Mary Jane StaplesWhen danger abounds, an unwelcome lodger becomes anything but...A riveting saga with an edge that will keep you reading. Perfect for fans of Maggie Ford, Kitty Neale and Katie Flyn...
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Hollow Crown
David RobertsA murder mystery featuring Lord Edward Corinth and Verity Browne.October 1936. Joe Weaver, press magnate and close friend of the Royal family, calls for Lord Edward Corinth's help ...