Penny Sumner
Brought To Book
Crosswords
About the Author
Bibliography
More Books From The Women's Press
Brought To Book
Murderous Stories from the Literary World
Penny Sumner (ed.)
Includes:
Bad Review Susan Dunlap
Pikeman and the Bagwoman Dale Gunthorp
Luisa Christina Lee
Could be Better Stella Duffy
Shame the Devil Millie Murray
Empty Arms Mary Wings
At the Premier's Literary Awards Melissa Chan
Wie Bitte? Barbara Wilson
Character Witness Robyn Vinten
Murder at the Sales Meeting Joan M.Drury
Four Characters, Four Lunches Finola Moorhead
A Man's Book Margaret Wilkinson
STET Barbara Paul
For Your Eyes Only Penny Sumner
With Mary Wings, Barbara Wilson, Stella Duffy and many more.
Authors wreaking revenge on editors, perfidious plots at award dinners, murders at sales conferences and in writers' groups - in Brought to Book top women crime writers expose the lethal reality of the literary world …
Crosswords
Starring Victoria Cross, Private Investigator.
London in January is dull and dreary. Business is slow. And Victoria Cross is only too happy to take on a routine missing person’s case. The man she’s tracking vanished twenty-five years ago, and a cold trail leads back to the gangland days of the sixties. It all seems part of a dim and distant past. Until the murderous hostilities simmering below the surface suddenly erupt. A valuable contact is killed, and Victoria knows her own life is now in deadly jeopardy. For Victoria’s partner, it’s an open-and-shut case: Victoria’s life is in danger so either she drops the investigation or April drops her. As tensions mount at work and at home, January in London quickly becomes a very hot month indeed.
"Rich in detail, satisfying in plot, hefty with mystery." Lambada Book Report
"Deftly written, cleverly crafted We will hear more of Victoria Cross." Gay Scotland
"A fast pace, believable characters, humour, sex, and a mystery that is not easily solved This novel has it all." The Washington Blade
About The Author
Penny Sumner is an Australian who came to England as a postgraduate student. She did a D.Phil. At Oxford and now lives in Newcastle upon tyne, where she teaches creative writing and contemporary literature at the University of Northumbria. Her first publication was a short story in Reader, I Murdered Him. Another short story, Dead Head, which appeared in Reader, I Murdered Him, Too was shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association Short Story Dagger Award. She has one son.
Bibliography
N.B. dates and publishers in dark red indicate British First Editions. Dates and publishers in black indicate recent reprints.
Brought To Book
(Women's Press Pbk,
1998)
Crosswords
(Women's Press Pbk,
1995)
(Victoria Cross)
The End of April
(Women's Press,
1993)
(Victoria Cross)
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