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Amy Myers (born 3 August 1938) is a British mystery writer. She is best known for her Marsh and Daughter mystery series, featuring a writing team consisting of a wheel-chair bound ex-policeman and his daughter, and for another series featuring a Victorian era chef, Auguste Didier. Myers' books have been favourably reviewed in Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and Kirkus Reviews. Myers has also been published several times in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. Janet Hutchings, the magazine's longtime editor, called Myers "one of our best and most frequent contributors of historicals" (i.e., historical mysteries).
Contents
- Amy myers autoimmunity thyroid issues and how to heal your adrenals
- Amy myers md pitfalls of paleo
- Personal life
- Writing career
- Auguste Didier series
- Marsh and Daughter series
- Tom Wasp series
- Classic Car series
- Nell Drury series
- Under the pseudonym Harriet Hudson
- The Ashden Quartet
- Under the pseudonym Laura Daniels
- Short story collection
- References
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Personal life
Myers was born in Barnehurst, which was still considered part of Kent in 1938. (In 1965, the town became part of Greater London.) It was while working in publishing that Myers met her soon-to-be American husband. Myers oversaw the publication of an autobiography by English bullfighter Henry Higgins; she met Higgins, his co-author, and the co-author's cousin, James Myers, born in Buffalo, New York. Although American-born, James Myers, has spent his adult life living in Europe.
For 10 years, the Myers maintained a commuter marriage, dividing their time between Paris, where James worked, and London, where Amy worked. It was during her stays in Paris that Myers dreamed up the character for her first mystery series, Auguste Didier, a half-English, half French chef who reluctantly dabbled in detection during the late Victorian and Edwardian periods. The couple now live in Kent full-time.
Writing career
Like the character Luke Frost in Myers' Marsh and Daughter series, Myers was once a publisher. She served as director of the now-defunct publishing firm of William Kimber & Co. Ltd., which specialised in war and theatrical memoirs, autobiographies, biographies, and tales of hauntings. Myers published her first mystery, Murder in Pug's Parlor, in 1986. In 1988, Myers turned to writing full-time.
After 11 Auguste Didier mysteries, Myers introduced former police detective Peter Marsh and his daughter Georgia in The Wickenham Murders in 2004. The father–daughter team write true-crime novels in which they expose an injustice or sleuth out the answer to an unsolved crime from the distant past. The Marshes' investigations almost inevitably involve them with present-day murders stemming from secrets involving the past.
Myers launched a third series in 2007 with Tom Wasp and the Murdered Stunner. Tom Wasp, a Victorian era chimney sweep in East London, solves crimes along with his former apprentice, Ned. Myers' fourth series, written with the help of her car buff husband, began in 2011 with Classic in the Barn. That series features a modern-day classic-car restorer in Kent, Jack Colby, who helps the police with cases involving classic cars.
In 2017, Myers introduced yet another cozy mystery series, this one featuring Nell Drury, a female French-trained chef in 1925 Kent when such a thing was a real anomaly. The debut novel is titled Dancing with Death.
For her romances, historical sagas and suspense novels, Myers created the pseudonym Harriet Hudson, although she has occasionally also used the names Laura Daniels and Alice Carr.
Myers also writes reviews of other books at the online crime and thriller magazine Shots.
Auguste Didier series
Marsh and Daughter series
Tom Wasp series
Classic Car series
Nell Drury series
Under the pseudonym Harriet Hudson
The Ashden Quartet
(set in the English homefront during World War I at the rectory in the Sussex village of Ashden)