# Tasha Alexander

Tasha Alexander (born Anastasia Gutting on December 1, 1969) is an American author who writes New York Times bestselling historical mystery fiction.

## Biography

Alexander was born and raised in South Bend, Indiana to Anastasia (Friel) and Gary Gutting, University of Notre Dame philosophy professors.
In 2002, while living in New Haven, Connecticut, she started work on her first novel, after being inspired by a passage in Dorothy L. Sayers's Gaudy Night. Carolyn Marino at William Morrow acquired the book, And Only to Deceive, which was published in 2005 as the first installment of the Lady Emily series. Following a move to Franklin, Tennessee, where Alexander wrote her second novel in a local Starbucks, she eventually relocated to Chicago, where she married British crime novelist Andrew Grant (brother of bestselling author Lee Child) in 2010.
In 2007, according to Library Journal, Minotaur Books "lured her away" from William Morrow. She is now edited by Charles Spicer and is the imprint's top writer of historical mysteries. Alexander's work has been translated into more than a dozen languages and has been nominated for the Bruce Alexander Award and the RT Reviewers Choice Award. She has a reputation for being extremely careful about accuracy in her novels and is meticulous about research.

## The Lady Emily series

The Lady Emily series, set in a time between the 1890s and 1900s and spanning across cities throughout Europe, follow the adventures of Lady Emily and her husband Colin Hargreaves.

### Novels and short stories

The Lady Emily series :
| No. | Year | Novel | ISBN (William Morrow) |
| 01. | 2005 | And Only to Deceive | ISBN 978-0-060-75671-0 |
| 02. | 2007 | A Poisoned Season | ISBN 978-0-061-17414-8 |
| 03. | 2008 | A Fatal Waltz | ISBN 978-0-061-17422-3 |
| 03.05 | 2009 | "The Bridal Strain" (short story) | ISBN — (none) — |
| No. | Year | Novel | ISBN (Minotaur Books) |
| 04. | 2009 | Tears of Pearl | ISBN 978-0-312-38370-1 |
| 05. | 2010 | Dangerous to Know | ISBN 978-0-312-38379-4 |
| 06. | 2011 | A Crimson Warning | ISBN 978-0-312-66175-5 |
| 07. | 2012 | Death in the Floating City | ISBN 978-0-312-66176-2 |
| 08. | 2013 | Behind the Shattered Glass | ISBN 978-1-250-02470-1 |
| 09. | 2014 | The Counterfeit Heiress | ISBN 978-1-250-02469-5 |
| 09.05 | 2014 | "Star of the East" (short story) | ISBN 978-1-466-87367-4 |
| 10. | 2015 | The Adventuress | ISBN 978-1-250-05826-3 |
| 10.05 | 2015 | "That Silent Night" (short story) | ISBN 978-1-466-89277-4 |
| 11. | 2016 | A Terrible Beauty | ISBN 978-1-250-05827-0 |
| 12. | 2017 | Death in St. Petersburg | ISBN 978-1-250-05828-7 |
| 12.05 | 2018 | "Amid the Winter's Snow" (short story) | ISBN 978-1-250-21300-6 |
| 13. | 2018 | Uneasy Lies the Crown | ISBN 978-1-250-16470-4 |
| 13.05 | 2019 | "Upon the Midnight Clear" (short story) | ISBN 978-1-250-75125-6 |
| 14. | 2020 | In the Shadow of Vesuvius | ISBN 978-1-250-16473-5 |
| 15. | 2021 | The Dark Heart of Florence | ISBN 978-1-250-62206-8 |
| 16. | 2022 | Secrets of the Nile | ISBN 978-1-250-81969-7 |
| 17. | 2023 | A Cold Highland Wind | ISBN 978-1-250-87233-3 |

## Non-Lady Emily short story works

(Short stories appearing in anthology collections)
* "Preparations" – Kwik Krimes (2013; anthology edited by Otto Penzler) ISBN 978-1-612-18300-8
* "Before a Bohemian Scandal" – Echoes of Sherlock Holmes (2016; anthology edited by Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger) ISBN 978-1-681-77225-7
* "[self-titled essay]" – Private Investigations (2020; anthology edited by Victoria Zackheim) ISBN 978-1-580-05921-3

## Miscellaneous works

* Elizabeth: The Golden Age, novelization, (2007); ISBN 978-0-061-43123-4 based on motion picture screenplay written by William Nicholson and Michael Hirst; published to coincide with release of 2007 film Elizabeth: The Golden Age, starring Cate Blanchett and Clive Owen.