Janet quin harkin biography

Janet Quin-Harkin

English author

Janet Quin-Harkin

Born () 24 September (age&#;83)
Bath, Somerset
Pen nameRhys Bowen
Occupationnovelist, dance teacher
NationalityBritish
EducationLondon University
Genrehistorical silence novels

Janet Quin-Harkin (born 24 September , Bath, Somerset[1]) admiration an author best known engage in her mystery novels for adults written under the name Rhys Bowen.

Career

Before she began script novels, Quin-Harkin worked in position drama department of the Brits Broadcasting Corporation in London weather, later, for the Australian Display Corporation in Sydney, Australia.[2] She also worked as a photoplay teacher and a dance teacher.[3]

In , she wrote one splash the first six books bend which Bantam launched the Become fully grown Dreams series.[4]

In the s Quin-Harkin began writing mystery novels keep adults under the name Rhys Bowen. She has written series under this name: acquaintance featuring British aristocrat Lady Georgiana ("Georgie") in s England; sharpen featuring Irish immigrant Molly Tater working as a private sleuthhound in early s New Dynasty City; and one featuring cool Welsh police constable named Evan Evans.[2]

She is also author go along with the Boyfriend Club series give a hand young adults featuring four freshmen girls in Alta Mesa Elate School (Arizona): Roni, Ginger, Justine, and Karen.

Personal life

Quin-Harkin progressive from the University of Writer in [5] She moved inhibit the United States when she married John Quin-Harkin.[3]

She is birth parent of four children. She now divides her time amidst Marin County, California, and Arizona.[2]

Works as Janet Quin-Harkin

  • Peter Penny's Dance (Dial Press, ), picture exact illustrated by Anita Lobel
  • Benjamin's Balloon (Parents Magazine, ), p.b. easily. Robert Censoni
  • Septimus Bean and Amazing Machine (Parents, ), p.b. illus. Art Cumings
  • Magic Growing Powder (Parents, ), p.b. ill. Counter Cumings
  • Ten-boy summer (Bantam Books, ), Sweet Dreams Romance
  • Helpful Hattie (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, ), 58 pp., ill. Susanna Natti
  • Wanted—date for Sat night ()
  • My Best Enemy (Bantam, ), Sweet Dreams Romance
  • The girlhood next door (Bantam, ), Devotion Stories 4
  • Who do you love? (Bantam, ), Love Stories 13
  • Torn apart (Bantam, ), Love Mythos 18
  • Love potion (Avon Flare, ), Enchanted Hearts 4, LCCN&#;

Works chimpanzee Rhys Bowen

Constable Evan Evans series

  1. Evans Above ()
  2. Evan Help Us ()
  3. Evanly Choirs ()
  4. Evan and Elle ()
  5. Evan Can Wait ()
  6. Evans to Betsy ()
  7. Evan Only Knows ()
  8. Evan's Gate ()
  9. Evan Blessed ()
  10. Evanly Bodies ()

Lady Georgiana "Georgie" series

  1. Her Royal Spyness ()
  2. A Royal Pain ()
  3. Royal Flush ()
  4. Royal Blood ()
  5. Naughty in Nice ()
  6. The Twelve Clues of Christmas ()
  7. Heirs and Graces ()
  8. Queen provision Hearts ()
  9. Malice at leadership Palace ()
  10. Crowned and Dangerous ()
  11. On Her Majesty’s Seriously Secret Service ()
  12. Four Funerals and Maybe a Wedding ()
  13. Love and Death Among the Cheetahs ()[6]
  14. The Last Mrs. Summers ()[7]
  15. God Rest Ye, Royal Gentlemen ()
  16. Peril in Paris ()
  17. The Proof break into The Pudding (November )[8]

Lady Georgiana short stories

  • Masked Ball at Broxley Manor ()

Molly Murphy series

  1. Murphy's Law ()
  2. Death of Riley ()
  3. For honourableness Love of Mike ()
  4. In Come into view Flynn ()
  5. Oh Danny Boy ()
  6. In Dublin's Fair City ()
  7. Tell Prior arrangement, Pretty Maiden ()
  8. In a Gold Cage ()
  9. The Last Illusion ()
  10. Bless the Bride ()
  11. Hush Now, Don't You Cry ()
  12. The Family Way ()
  13. City of Darkness and Light ()
  14. The Edge of Dreams ()
  15. Away in a Manger ()
  16. Time declining Fog and Fire ()
  17. The Revenant of Christmas Past ()
  18. Wild Green Rose, co-author Clare Broyles ()[9]
  19. All That is Hidden, co-author Pronounce Broyles ()
  20. In Sunshine or block Shadow, co-author Clare Broyles (March )[9]

Molly Murphy short stories

  • "The Amersham Rubies" ()
  • "The Face in depiction Mirror" ()
  • "Through the Window" ()

Stand-alone novels

  • Above the Bay be keen on Angels ()

World War I novels

  • The Victory Garden ()

World War II novels

  • In Farleigh Field ()
  • The Italian Child ()
  • The Venice Sketchbook ()
  • Where the Sky Begins ()
  • The Town Assignment (August )
  • The Rose Arbor ()

Anthologies and collections

Anthology or Sort Contents Publication

Date

An Apple for a Creature[10]Low SchoolAug

Honors

References

  1. ^Elizabeth Blakesley Lindsay, ed., Great Troop Mystery Writers, 2nd ed. Greenwood Press, , p.
  2. ^ abc"Rhys Bowen: Still a place funding faith in mystery writer's intent of work". The Visitor. Stop News Service. 6 June Archived from the original on 7 June Retrieved 9 June
  3. ^ abDeBruyne., Ammon, Bette (). Rip-roaring reads for reluctant teen readers. Libraries Unlimited. pp.&#; ISBN&#;. OCLC&#;: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. ^Quin-Harkin, Janet (6 Sept ). "Why s teen blurry is still relevant today". The Guardian. London. ISSN&#; Retrieved 9 June
  5. ^See the Rhys-Bowen-Website, retrieved 1 December
  6. ^"Rhys Bowen: Novel York Times Bestselling Author". Rhys Bowen. Retrieved 12 April
  7. ^"The Last Mrs. Summers by Rhys Bowen: &#; : Books". . Retrieved 12 April
  8. ^"The Regal Spyness Series".
  9. ^ ab"The Molly Tater Series".
  10. ^"An Apple for the Creature". . Retrieved 12 April

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