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Lesley Cookman


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Lesley started writing almost as soon as she could read, and filled many Woolworth's exercise books with pony stories until she was old enough to go out with boys. Since she's been grown up, following a varied career as a model, actress, air stewardess and disc jockey, she's written short fiction and features for a variety of magazines, achieved an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Wales, taught writing for both Kent Adult Education and the WEA and edited the first Sexy Shorts collection of short stories from Accent Press in aid of the Breast Cancer Campaign. Her book, Murder in Midwinter is the third in the Libby Sarjeant series, following Murder in Steeple Martin and Murder at The Laurels. Murder by the Sea has a publication date of August 4th 2008 and meanwhile Lesley continues to write, act and direct for her local theatre company and her pantomimes and a Music Hall musical, Summer Season, are all available from Jasper Publishing. A new edition of her book, How to Write a Pantomime, with a foreword by Roy Hudd, is now available from Accent Press.
 

Genres: Cozy Mystery, Historical Mystery
 
New and upcoming books
Series
Libby Sarjeant Mysteries
   1. Murder in Steeple Martin (2006)
   2. Murder At the Laurels (2007)
   3. Murder in Midwinter (2007)
   4. Murder By the Sea (2008)
   5. Murder in Bloom (2009)
   6. Murder in the Green (2010)
   7. Murder Imperfect (2010)
   8. Murder to Music (2011)
   9. Murder at the Manor (2011)
   10. Murder by Magic (2012)
   11. Murder at the Monastery (2013)
   12. Murder in the Dark (2013)
   13. Murder in a Different Place (2014)
   14. Murder out of Tune (2014)
   Murder at Mallowan Manor (2015)
   15. Murder in the Blood (2015)
   16. Murder Dancing (2016)
   17. Murder on the Run (2016)
   18. Murder by the Barrel (2017)
   Murder Most Fowl (2017)
   19. Murder and the Glovemakers Son (2018)
   Murder and The Pantomime Cat (2018)
   20. Murder Repeated (2019)
   21. Murder on the Edge (2020)
   22. Murder After Midnight (2021)
   Murder Most Merry (2021)
   23. Murder by Mistake (2022)
   24. Murder in Autumn (2023)
   25. Murder by Christmas (2023)
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Alexandrians
   1. Death Plays a Part (2017)
   2. Entertaining Death (2017)
   3. Death Treads the Boards (2019)
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Collections
   Beach Hut Surprise (2020) (with others)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   Bad Behaviour (2013)
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Anthologies edited
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Plays show
 
Non fiction show
 
Omnibus editions show
 


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