Jessica Mann

Jessica Mann was born and went to school in London, then took degrees in Archaeology and Anglo Saxon at Newnham College, Cambridge and 10 years later, as a mature student, law at Leicester University. Jessica started writing what she liked (and still likes) reading - crime fiction - and her first book, A Charitable End, came out in 1973. Since then she has published 20 crime novels, 2 non-fiction books, thousands of articles and book reviews and a book about Godrevy Lighthouse written with her husband, the archaeologist Charles Thomas. They have 2 sons, 2 daughters, 11 grandchildren and live in Cornwall