Claim: Lucretia Grindle's first two published novels were comedy genre with a common central character; her third book was a psychological suspense novel; she went on to write books with combined elements of psychological suspense and police procedural genres.
Evidence: Grindle's first two published novels, the Pocket Books-issued The Killing of Ellis Martin (1993) and So Little to Die For (1994), both featured elements of the cozy mystery genre and had a common central character in British police inspector H. W. Ross.