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Books by Jess Kidd
Jess Kidd was brought up in London as part of a large family from County Mayo. She is the author of four novels. She has been nominated for many awards including the Crime Writers’ Association’s New Blood Dagger, the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award and the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award. Her books have been chosen for the BBC Radio 2 Book Club and BBC Two’s Between the Covers book club.
Interviews with Jess Kidd
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The Body in the Library
by Agatha Christie -
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A Morbid Taste for Bones: The First Chronicle of Brother Cadfael
by Ellis Peters -
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The Maid
by Nita Prose, narrated by Lauren Ambrose -
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The Way of All Flesh: A Raven & Fisher Mystery
by Ambrose Parry -
5
Dear Little Corpses: A Josephine Tey Mystery
by Nicola Upson
The Best Amateur Detective Novels, recommended by Jess Kidd
The Best Amateur Detective Novels, recommended by Jess Kidd
The ‘everyman’ quality of an amateur sleuths makes for a particularly readable subgenre of mystery book, says Jess Kidd—the author of a new series starring a crime-solving former nun. Here, she recommends five brilliant amateur detective novels with finely calibrated puzzles at their hearts.
