Susan Moody (b.1940 in Oxford

Oxford

The city of Oxford is the county town of Oxfordshire, England. The city, made prominent by its medieval university, has a population of just under 165,000, with 153,900 living within the district boundary. It lies about 50 miles north-west of London. The rivers Cherwell and Thames run through...

) is the principal nom de plume of Susan Elizabeth Donaldson, née Horwood, a British novelist best known for her suspense novels. On her marriage to Professor John Dalgleish Donaldson

John Dalgleish Donaldson

John Dalgleish Donaldson is an Australian professor and father of Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark, the wife of the heir apparent to the throne of Denmark, Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark.-Family and marriages:...

 in 2001 she became the stepmother of Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark

Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark

Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark, Countess of Monpezat, is the wife of Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark...

, and her three siblings.

Biography

She grew up in Oxford then moved to Tennessee

Tennessee

Tennessee is a U.S. state located in the Southeastern United States. It has a population of 6,346,105, making it the nation's 17th-largest state by population, and covers , making it the 36th-largest by total land area...

 for 10 years. She published two historical novels and the novelisation of the Nescafé Gold Blend advertisements under the pen name Susannah James. More recently she has also used the nom de plume, Susan Madison. She is a former Chairman of the Crime Writer's Association, served as World President of the International Association of Crime Writers, and was elected to the prestigious Detection Club. Susan Moody has given numerous courses on writing crime fiction and continues to teach creative writing in England, France, Australia, the USA and Denmark.

Penny Wanawake series

Penny is a 6 ft beautiful black photographer and the daughter of a UN Ambassador.

• Penny Black (1984) (#56 among The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time
  The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time
  The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time is a list published in book form in 1990 by the British-based Crime Writers' Association. Five years later, the Mystery Writers of America published a similar list entitled The Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time...
  
  )
• Penny Dreadful (1984)
• Penny Post (1985)
• Penny Royal (1986)
• Penny Wise (1988)
• Penny Pinching (1989)
• Penny Saving (1993)

Cassie Swann series

Cassie Swann is an expert bridge

Contract bridge

Contract bridge, usually known simply as bridge, is a trick-taking card game using a standard deck of 52 playing cards played by four players in two competing partnerships with partners sitting opposite each other around a small table...

 player in Bellington, England.

• Takeout Double (Also published as: Death Takes a Hand) (1993)
• Grand Slam (1994)
• King of Hearts (1995)
• Doubled in Spades (1996)
• Sacrifice Bid (1997)
• Dummy Hand (1998)

Others

• Misselthwaite (1995): an unofficial sequel to Frances Hodgson Burnett
  Frances Hodgson Burnett
  Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett was an English playwright and author. She is best known for her children's stories, in particular The Secret Garden , A Little Princess, and Little Lord Fauntleroy.Born Frances Eliza Hodgson, she lived in Cheetham Hill, Manchester...
  
  's novel The Secret Garden
  The Secret Garden
  The Secret Garden is a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It was initially published in serial format starting in the autumn of 1910, and was first published in its entirety in 1911. It is now one of Burnett's most popular novels, and is considered to be a classic of English children's...
  
  ; also published as Return to the Secret Garden.
• Falling Angel (1998)
• The Italian Garden (1998)

As Susan Madison

• The Colour of Hope (2000)
• The Hour of Separation (2002)
• Touching the Sky (2003)

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