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Cath Staincliffe

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Cath Staincliffe is a best-selling, award-winning novelist, radio playwright and the creator of ITV’s hit series, Blue Murder, starring Caroline Quentin as DCI Janine Lewis. Cath’s books have been short-listed for the CWA best first novel award, for the Dagger in the Library twice and twice for the Short Story Dagger, winning in 2012. She was a winner of the WGGB Best Radio Drama Award in 2019. Cath’s Sal Kilkenny private eye series features a single-parent sleuth working the mean streets of Manchester. Her debut Looking For Trouble was serialised on Woman’s Hour on BBC Radio 4. Trio, a stand-alone novel moved away from crime to explore adoption and growing up in the 1960s, informed by Cath’s own experience. Letters To My Daughter’s Killer was selected for Specsavers Crime Thriller Book Club in 2014 and featured on ITV3’s Crime Thriller Club. Cath also writes the Scott & Bailey novels based on the popular UK TV series. Cath created the probate detective series Legacy for BBC Radio 4 and guest writes on the Stone police drama. Her recent stand-alone novels examine the impact of crime on ordinary families. The Girl in the Green Dress was inspired by her experience as the parent of a transgender child. Cath’s latest book, Running out of Road, is a race against time, played out in the brooding wilderness, the limestone gorges and gritstone edges of the Derbyshire Peaks when eleven-year-old Scarlett is abducted on her way home from school. Cath is one of the founding members of Murder Squad – a group of Northern crime writers who give readings, talks and signings around the country. Cath was born in Bradford, Yorkshire, UK and now lives in Manchester, Lancashire with her family. You can follow her on Twitter, @CathStaincliffe, where she hangs about when she should be busy writing!

Author photo © www.jilljennings.com

Other Awards

Writers’ Guild of Great Britain, Best Radio Drama Award joint winner in 2019 for Stone (BBC Radio 4).

CrimeFest eDunnit Award – Running out of Road –  Shortlisted.

Books by Cath Staincliffe

  • Missing Missing

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  • Running out of Road Running out of Road

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  • Make Believe Make Believe

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  • Desperate Measures Desperate Measures

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  • Towers Of Silence Towers Of Silence

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  • Bitter Blue Bitter Blue

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  • Crying Out Loud Crying Out Loud

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  • Blue Murder Blue Murder

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  • Hit And Run Hit And Run

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  • Trio Trio

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  • Looking for Trouble Looking for Trouble

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  • Go Not Gently Go Not Gently

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  • Stone Cold Red Hot Stone Cold Red Hot

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  • Bleed Like Me Bleed Like Me

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  • Split Second Split Second

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  • Dead to Me Dead to Me

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  • The Kindest Thing The Kindest Thing

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  • The Silence Between Breaths The Silence Between Breaths

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  • Half the World Away Half the World Away

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  • Letters to my Daughter’s Killer Letters to my Daughter’s Killer

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  • Ruthless Ruthless

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  • Blink of an Eye Blink of an Eye

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  • Quiet Acts of Violence Quiet Acts of Violence

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  • Fear of Falling Fear of Falling

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  • The Girl in the Green Dress The Girl in the Green Dress

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