Lucy Andrew

Lucy Andrew is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Chester, where she teaches and researches crime fiction, children’s and YA fiction and creative writing. Her published research includes her academic monograph, The Boy Detective in Early British Children’s Literature: Patrolling the Borders between Boyhood and Manhood (Palgrave, 2017), edited collections Crime Fiction in the City: Capital Crimes (co-edited with Catherine Phelps, University of Wales Press, 2013) and The Detective’s Companion in Crime Fiction: A Study in Sidekicks (co-edited with Samuel Saunders, Palgrave, 2021) and academic book chapters on Harry Potter, Batman and Robin, Veronica Mars, and supernatural detective fiction. She has appeared on BBC radio, the Rippercast podcast, crime documentary series Murder Maps and at the Wolverhampton Literature Festival to discuss her research on Jack the Ripper.

She was shortlisted for the Penguin Michael Joseph Undiscovered Writers’ Prize: Crime and Thriller 2022-23, was a finalist at Bloody Scotland’s Pitch Perfect 2023, highly commended in the Spread the Word Case Closed First Chapter competition 2023 and runner up in the A.M. Heath/Orion Criminal Lines Competition 2023 for her forthcoming novel A Very Vexing Murder, a cosy crime retelling of Jane Austen’s Emma from the perspective of con-woman-turned-detective Harriet Smith. She is represented by Euan Thorneycroft at A.M. Heath.

Other Awards

Shortlisted for the International Crime Fiction Association Book Prize 2022 for Lucy Andrew and Sam Saunders (eds), The Detective’s Companion in Crime Fiction: A Study in Sidekicks (Palgrave, 2021).

Shortlisted for the CrimeFest H.R.F. Keating Award for Lucy Andrew and Sam Saunders (eds), The Detective’s Companion in Crime Fiction: A Study in Sidekicks (Palgrave, 2021).

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