Mystery Women Authors

Penny Sumner

Biography

Penny Sumner is an Australian who came to England as a postgraduate student. She did a D.Phil. At Oxford and now lives in Newcastle upon tyne, where she teaches creative writing and contemporary literature at the University of Northumbria. Her first publication was a short story in Reader, I Murdered Him. Another short story, Dead Head, which appeared in Reader, I Murdered Him, Too was shortlisted
for the Crime Writers' Association Short Story Dagger Award. She has one son.

Books

Tor Cross Mysteries

The End of April

Victoria Cross brings a wealth of natural skills to her work as a PI.  She is bright, fun, has initiative and perseverance.   She is also, by profession, an archivist.

When Aunt Rosemary, a professor at Oxford, asks Tor to come home from New York, to help in the transcription of 'illicit sexual writings from the 19th century.... how could anybody resist?  Tor readily agrees.  And to add to the charms of the job, is the beautiful April Tate...

Sudden death intrudes, violently and life becomes even more complicated for the intrepid PI.

Published The Women's Press 1993

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Crosswords

London in January is dull and dreary. Business is slow. And Victoria Cross is only too happy to take on a routine missing person’s case. The man she’s tracking vanished twenty-five years ago, and a cold trail leads back to the gangland days of the sixties. It all seems part of a dim and distant past. Until the murderous hostilities simmering below the surface suddenly erupt. A valuable contact is killed, and Victoria knows her own life
is now in deadly jeopardy. For Victoria’s partner, it’s an open-and-shut case: Victoria’s life is in danger so either she drops the investigation or April drops her. As tensions mount at work and at home, January in London quickly becomes a very hot month indeed.

Published The Women's Press 1995

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Short Stories

Brought to Book Murderous Stories from the Literary World Penny Sumner (ed.)

Includes:
Bad Review Susan Dunlap
Pikeman and the Bagwoman Dale Gunthorp
Luisa Christina Lee
Could be Better Stella Duffy
Shame the Devil Millie Murray
Empty Arms Mary Wings
At the Premier's Literary Awards Melissa Chan
Wie Bitte? Barbara Wilson
Character Witness Robyn Vinten
Murder at the Sales Meeting Joan M.Drury
Four Characters, Four Lunches Finola Moorhead
A Man's Book Margaret Wilkinson
STET Barbara Paul
For Your Eyes Only Penny Sumner With Mary Wings, Barbara Wilson, Stella Duffy and many more.

Authors wreaking revenge on editors, perfidious plots at award dinners, murders at sales conferences and in writers' groups - in Brought to Book top women crime writers expose the lethal reality of the literary world …

Published The Women's Press 1998

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