Patricia Ann Granger is a British crime writer.

Granger was born in Portsmouth

Portsmouth

Portsmouth is the second largest city in the ceremonial county of Hampshire on the south coast of England. Portsmouth is notable for being the United Kingdom's only island city; it is located mainly on Portsea Island...

, England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

. She took a Modern Languages degree at the University of London

University of London

-20th century:Shortly after 6 Burlington Gardens was vacated, the University went through a period of rapid expansion. Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900, Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841 became an official divinity school of the...

, taught English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 for a year in France

France

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, but eventually went to work in the visa

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 sections of British consulate

Consul (representative)

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s and embassies in Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia

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, Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia

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 and Austria

Austria

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. She married a work colleague in the foreign service and went with him to Zambia

Zambia

Zambia , officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. The neighbouring countries are the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Tanzania to the north-east, Malawi to the east, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia to the south, and Angola to the west....

 and Germany

Germany

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 before returning to live in England with their two children.

Her first novels were historical

Historical fiction

Historical fiction tells a story that is set in the past. That setting is usually real and drawn from history, and often contains actual historical persons, but the principal characters tend to be fictional...

 romance

Romance novel

The romance novel is a literary genre developed in Western culture, mainly in English-speaking countries. Novels in this genre place their primary focus on the relationship and romantic love between two people, and must have an "emotionally satisfying and optimistic ending." Through the late...

s published under the nom de plume Ann Hulme. After her return to England, her first crime novel

Crime fiction

Crime fiction is the literary genre that fictionalizes crimes, their detection, criminals and their motives. It is usually distinguished from mainstream fiction and other genres such as science fiction or historical fiction, but boundaries can be, and indeed are, blurred...

, Say It With Poison, was published in 1991

1991 in literature

The year 1991 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-Events:*Douglas Coupland publishes the novel Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, popularizing the term Generation X as the name of the generation....

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Historical romances (selection)

• A Poor Relation (1979)
• Summer Heiress (1982)
• The Garden of the Azure Dragon (1986)
• The Unexpected American (1989)
• A Scandalous Bargain (1990)
• False Fortune (1991)

Mitchell & Markby mysteries

• Say It with Poison
  Say It With Poison
  Say It With Poison is a whodunnit or mystery novel by Ann Granger. It is the first in a series of 15 Mitchell and Markby Mysteries....
  
   (1991)
• A Season For Murder (1991)
• Cold in the Earth
  Cold in the Earth
  Cold in the Earth is Ann Granger's third Mitchell and Markby Mystery. Set in rural England, it is about three seemingly unconnected deaths which occur in quick succession in the fictitious town of Bamford in the Cotswolds...
  
   (1992)
• Murder Among Us (1992)
• Where Old Bones Lie (1993)
• Flowers For His Funeral (1994)
• A Fine Place For Death (1994)
• Candle For a Corpse (1995)
• A Word After Dying (1996)
• A Touch of Mortality (1996)
• Call the Dead Again (1998)
• Beneath these Stones (1999)
• Shades of Murder (2000)
• A Restless Evil (2002)
• That Way Murder Lies (2004) (the final Mitchell & Markby novel)

Fran Varady mysteries

• Asking for Trouble (1997)
• Keeping Bad Company (1997)
• Running Scared (1998)
• Risking It All (2001)
• Watching Out (2003)
• Mixing With Murder (2005)
• Rattling the Bones
  Rattling the bones
  Rattling the Bones is a basic physical warm-up used by stage actors prior to a performance or rehearsal.- Execution :This warm-up is performed by standing in a neutral position with the feet hip-width apart and the arms at the sides. The knees are bent slightly while the upper-body remains upright...
  
   (2007)

Lizzie Martin Mysteries

• A Rare Interest in Corpses (2006)
• A Mortal Curiosity (2008)
• A Better Quality of Murder (2010)

Campbell & Carter mysteries

• Mud, Muck and Dead things (2009)
• Rack, Ruin and Murder (2011)