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Cath Staincliffe

(b.1956)

Cath Staincliffe's first crime novel, Looking for Trouble, was short-listed for the CWA's best first novel award and was serialized on Radio 4's Woman's Hour. Since then she has written several crime novels, all of which have been very well reviewed. Cath Staincliffe was adopted as a baby in England and has in recent years been reunited with her Irish birth-family. Although Trio is not autobiographical, it contains elements of Cath's own story, and is evidently written from the heart.

Genres: Mystery, Sagas

Series

Sal Kilkenny
   1. Looking For Trouble (1994)
   2. Go Not Gently (1997)
   3. Dead Wrong (1998)
   4. Stone Cold Red Hot (2001)
   5. Towers of Silence (2001)
   6. Bitter Blue (2003)
   7. Missing (2007)
   8. Crying Out Loud (2011)

Janine Lewis
   1. Blue Murder (2004)
   2. Hit and Run (2005)
   3. Make Believe (2013)
   4. Desperate Measures (2015)

Scott & Bailey
   1. Dead to Me (2012)
   2. Bleed Like Me (2013)
   3. Ruthless (2014)

Detectives Donovan & Young
1. The Fells (2024)

Novels

   The Lost Girls of St Ann's (2002)
     aka Trio
   The Kindest Thing (2010)
   Witness (2011)
   Split Second (2012)
   Blink of an Eye (2013)
   Letters To My Daughter's Killer (2014)
   Half the World Away (2015)
   The Silence Between Breaths (2016)
   The Girl in the Green Dress (2017)
   Fear of Falling (2018)
   Quiet Acts of Violence (2020)
   Running out of Road (2021)

Collections

Murder Shorts: 1 (2018)

Novellas and Short Stories

Violation (2011)
In the Heart of the City (2011)

Books containing stories by Cath Staincliffe

Music of the Night (2022)
(Crime Writer's Association Anthology)
edited by
Martin Edwards

Daggers Drawn (2021)
edited by
Maxim Jakubowski

Many Deadly Returns (2021)
21 stories celebrating 21 years of Murder Squad
edited by
Martin Edwards

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Award nominations

	2024 HWA / Dorothy Dunnett Society Short Story Award (nominee) : Nebraska
	2023 CWA Dagger in the Library (shortlist)
	2022 CrimeFest: eDunnit Award (nominee) : Running out of Road
	2019 CWA Dagger in the Library (shortlist)
	2006 CWA Dagger in the Library (shortlist)
	1994 John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger (shortlist) : Looking For Trouble