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Cath Staincliffe


UK flag (b.1956)

Cath Staincliffe's first crime novel, Looking for Trouble, was short-listed for the CWA's best first novel award and was serialized on Radio 4's Woman's Hour. Since then she has written several crime novels, all of which have been very well reviewed. Cath Staincliffe was adopted as a baby in England and has in recent years been reunited with her Irish birth-family. Although Trio is not autobiographical, it contains elements of Cath's own story, and is evidently written from the heart.
 


Genres: Mystery, Sagas
 
Series
Sal Kilkenny
   1. Looking For Trouble (1994)
   2. Go Not Gently (1997)
   3. Dead Wrong (1998)
   4. Stone Cold Red Hot (2001)
   5. Towers of Silence (2001)
   6. Bitter Blue (2003)
   7. Missing (2007)
   8. Crying Out Loud (2011)
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Janine Lewis
   1. Blue Murder (2004)
   2. Hit and Run (2005)
   3. Make Believe (2013)
   4. Desperate Measures (2015)
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Scott & Bailey
   1. Dead to Me (2012)
   2. Bleed Like Me (2013)
   3. Ruthless (2014)
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Novels
   The Lost Girls of St Ann's (2002)
     aka Trio
   The Kindest Thing (2010)
   Witness (2011)
   Split Second (2012)
   Blink of an Eye (2013)
   Letters To My Daughter's Killer (2014)
   Half the World Away (2015)
   The Silence Between Breaths (2016)
   The Girl in the Green Dress (2017)
   Fear of Falling (2018)
   Quiet Acts of Violence (2020)
   Running out of Road (2021)
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Collections
   Murder Shorts: 1 (2018)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   Violation (2011)
   In the Heart of the City (2011)
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Books containing stories by Cath Staincliffe
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Music of the Night (2022)
(Crime Writer's Association Anthology)
edited by
Martin Edwards
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Many Deadly Returns (2021)
21 stories celebrating 21 years of Murder Squad
edited by
Martin Edwards

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Award nominations
2023 CWA Dagger in the Library (shortlist)
2022 CrimeFest: eDunnit Award (nominee) : Running out of Road
2019 CWA Dagger in the Library (shortlist)
2006 CWA Dagger in the Library (shortlist)
1994 John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger (shortlist) : Looking For Trouble


Cath Staincliffe recommends
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I Did It for Us (2018)
Alison Bruce
"The tension is ratcheted up to the bitter end!"
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The House (2017)
The New Neighbors

Simon Lelic
"An intriguing and suspenseful read."
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Dark Chapter (2017)
Winnie M Li
"An accomplished debut, an honest and unsparing story."

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