Our Authors
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, in law at Leicester University. Jessica started writing what she liked reading - crime fiction - and her first book, A Charitable End, came out in 1973. Between then and 2018 she published 22 crime novels, 2 non-fiction books, thousands of articles and book reviews and a book about Godrevy Lighthouse written with her late husband, the archaeologist Charles Thomas.
As a journalist she wrote for national newspapers, weeklies and glossy magazines, and was a regular broadcaster on programmes including Any Questions, Question Time, Woman's Hour, Round Britain Quiz and so on. Jessica was the crime fiction critic for the Literary Review. Jessica and Charles had 2 sons, 2 daughters, 11 grandchildren and lived in Cornwall. Jessica sadly died on the 10th of July 2018.