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Cath Staincliffe
Cath Staincliffe is a best-selling, award-winning novelist, radio playwright and the creator of ITV’s hit series, Blue Murder, starring Caroline Quentin as DCI Janine Lewis. Cath’s books have been short-listed for the CWA best first novel award, for the Dagger in the Library twice and twice for the Short Story Dagger, winning in 2012. She was a winner of the WGGB Best Radio Drama Award in 2019. Cath’s Sal Kilkenny private eye series features a single-parent sleuth working the mean streets of Manchester. Her debut Looking For Trouble was serialised on Woman’s Hour on BBC Radio 4. Trio, a stand-alone novel moved away from crime to explore adoption and growing up in the 1960s, informed by Cath’s own experience. Letters To My Daughter’s Killer was selected for Specsavers Crime Thriller Book Club in 2014 and featured on ITV3’s Crime Thriller Club. Cath also writes the Scott & Bailey novels based on the popular UK TV series. Cath created the probate detective series Legacy for BBC Radio 4 and guest writes on the Stone police drama. Her recent stand-alone novels examine the impact of crime on ordinary families. The Girl in the Green Dress was inspired by her experience as the parent of a transgender child. Cath’s latest book, Running out of Road, is a race against time, played out in the brooding wilderness, the limestone gorges and gritstone edges of the Derbyshire Peaks when eleven-year-old Scarlett is abducted on her way home from school. Cath is one of the founding members of Murder Squad – a group of Northern crime writers who give readings, talks and signings around the country. Cath was born in Bradford, Yorkshire, UK and now lives in Manchester, Lancashire with her family. You can follow her on Twitter, @CathStaincliffe, where she hangs about when she should be busy writing!
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CWA Awards
- CWA Historical Dagger - Shortlisted
Other Awards
Writers’ Guild of Great Britain, Best Radio Drama Award joint winner in 2019 for Stone (BBC Radio 4).
Sub-genres
Books by Cath Staincliffe


Quiet Acts of Violence

Fear of Falling

The Girl in the Green Dress

The Silence Between Breaths

Half the World Away

Letters to my Daughter’s Killer

Ruthless

Blink of an Eye

Bleed Like Me

Split Second

Dead to Me

Witness

The Kindest Thing

Trio

Looking for Trouble

Go Not Gently

Dead Wrong

Stone Cold Red Hot

Towers Of Silence

Bitter Blue

Crying Out Loud

Blue Murder

Hit And Run

Make Believe

Desperate Measures

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