Career
At present, she lives in Northern Ireland. She began her career as a journalist, and rose to become editor of the County Down Spectator before resigning in order to devote all her time to her writing. She has had over 30 novels published both in English, and translated into several other languages.
Most of these belong to five series, while nine (at present) are standalone novels.
Her books are well reviewed, with the New York Times, for example, referring to her "solid series of British police procedurals", and praising the for their "superb character work" in the context of a "deeply satisfying series". Striving with Gods (aka An Uncertain Death) (1984)
Gilgamesh (1989)
The Going Down of the Sun (1989)
The Fifth Cataract (2005)
Shards (aka Critical Angle) (1990)
Death and Other Lovers (1991)
A Bleeding of Innocents (1993)
Charisma (aka Sins of the Heart) (1994)
A Taste for Burning (aka Burning Desires) (1995)
Number Birds Sing (1996)
Broken Lincolnshire (1998)
The Hireling"s Tale (1999)
Changelings (2000)
The Primrose Convention (1997)
The Primrose Switchback (2000)
Echoes of Lies (2001)
True Witness (2002)
Reflections (2003)
The Depths of Solitude (2004)
Breaking Faith (2005)
Requiem for a Dealer (2006)
Flawed (2007)
Closer Still (2008)
Liars All (2009)
The Matrix (1981)
The Winter Plain (1982)
A Cactus Garden (1983)
Mosaic (1986)
The Mason Codex (aka Unlawful Entry) (1988)
The Lazarus Hotel (1996)
Tinderbox (2006)
From Fire and Flood (2007)
Fathers and Sins (2008)
Death in High Places (2011)
Deadly Virtues (2013)
Perfect Sins (2014)
Desperate Measures (2015).