Lesley Grant-Adamson
Lesley Grant-Adamson (born Lesley Heycock, 26 November 1942) is a British writer of mystery fiction and former journalist. Life and career. A native of London, Grant-Adamson attended schools in that city and in Wales before embarking on a journalistic career in the early 1960s; she held a string of magazine and newspaper positions before becoming a feature writer with "The Guardian", a job she left in 1980 to become a full-time freelance writer. Besides crime novels, she has written television scripts, poetry, magazine pieces, and short stories. Her novels feature Rain Morgan, a gossip  columnist; private detective Laura Flynn; and American conman Jim Rush. She has written a number of non-series novels and several works of non-fiction as well. Her novel "Patterns in the Dust" was nominated for a John Creasey Award for Best First Novel. Works. List taken from: