The Woman on the Orient Express by Lindsay Jayne Ashford

Her latest book, published in 2016, 'The Woman on the Orient Express,' is a novel with a fictional version Agatha Christie as its heroine.Īshford currently lives on the Welsh coast near Aberystwyth. Her novel, With Love and Crocodiles, was published independently on 4 November 2013, and was then revised and re-published in April 2015, under the title, 'The Color of Secrets.' It was broadcast on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour in February 2014. Her historical mystery, The Mysterious Death of Miss Austen, was adapted for radio by Andrew Davies and Eileen Horne. She wrote The Rubber Woman for the Quick Reads series in 2007. Strange Blood was shortlisted for the 2006 Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award. Her first book, Frozen, was published by Honno in 2003. Agatha isnt the only passenger on board with secrets.

But unlike her famous detective Hercule Poirot, she cant neatly unravel the mysteries she encounters on this fateful journey. In 1996, she took a crime writing course run by the Arvon Foundation. Hoping to make a clean break from a fractured marriage, Agatha Christie boards the Orient Express in disguise. Ashford was then employed as a reporter for the BBC before becoming a freelance journalist, writing for a number of national magazines and newspapers. Raised in Wolverhampton, Ashford became the first woman to graduate from Queens' College, Cambridge in its 550-year history. Hoping to make a clean break from a fractured marriage, Agatha Christie boards the Orient Express in disguise.

Many of her books follow the character of Megan Rhys, an investigative psychologist. Her style of writing has been compared to that of Vivien Armstrong, Linda Fairstein and Frances Fyfield. Lindsay Ashford is a British crime novelist and journalist.

The Woman on the Orient Express by Lindsay Jayne Ashford