Nicola Upson

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Nicola Upson was born in Suffolk and read English at Downing College, Cambridge. She has worked in theatre and as a freelance journalist, and is the author of two works of non-fiction and the recipient of an Escalator Award from Arts Council England. She lives with her partner, and shares her time between Cambridge and Cornwall.

Books by Nicola Upson

Fear in the Sunlight

Published: March 2021

The fourth in Nicola Upson's delightful and atmospheric period crime series featuring Josephine Tey.

The Death of Lucy Kyte

Published: March 2021

'Who is Lucy Kyte?'
Macdonald shrugged. 'Your guess is as good as mine.
Lucy Kyte is a mystery.'

The fifth novel in the enthralling series starring Golden Age crime writer Josephine Tey

An Expert in Murder

Published: March 2021

From a great new talent in British crime writing, this is the first in an engrossing new series that cleverly blends fact and fiction.

The Dead of Winter

Published: January 2021

A snowy Christmas gathering on an island off the Cornish coast goes murderously wrong in this festive Golden Age mystery.

Sorry for the Dead

Published: September 2020

A compelling murder mystery in which events shift between a world on the brink of a devastating world war and the deadly aftermath of that war.

Sorry for the Dead

Published: January 2020

A compelling murder mystery in which events shift between a world on the brink of a devastating world war and the deadly aftermath of that war.

Nine Lessons

Published: January 2019

In the years before the Great War, M.R. James told ghost stories by candlelight to a handful of friends and scholars. Now, twenty-five years later, those men are dying, killed off one by one...