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Julie J. Anderson

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Julie Anderson is the CWA Dagger listed author of three Whitehall thrillers and a short series of historical adventure stories for young adults. Before becoming a crime fiction writer, she was a senior civil servant, working across a variety of departments and agencies, including the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. Unlike her protagonists, however, she doesn’t know where (all) the bodies are buried.

She writes crime fiction reviews for Time and Leisure Magazine and is a co-founder and Trustee of the Clapham Book Festival. She lives in south London where her latest crime fiction series is set, returning to her first love of writing historical fiction with The Midnight Man, for Hobeck Books. The first in the Clapham Trilogy, the second, A
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Julie J. Anderson I am currently preparing 'On the Frontier' my second book for editing. It's part of the Al Andalus series, though this book is aimed specifically at younger readers.
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World War Two set books – three cracking reads

Given the recent 80th anniversary of VE Day, I have chosen three books with a World War Two setting. They are all standalone mysteries but are also part of a series. Settle into an armchair and immerse yourselves in a world made dangerous by bombs and Nazis, as well as criminals. My first book is […]
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A Death in the Afternoon by Julie J. Anderson
"London, 1948.

Faye Smith has recently qualified as a female police officer, and she’s to join the Criminal Investigation Department as a Detective Constable. She will have a lot to prove, as she’s met with hostility, jealousy and misogyny.

Faye used to" Read more of this review »
A Death in the Afternoon by Julie J. Anderson
"We begin in Summer, 1948, and learn that Fay Smith has joined the police and is still Ellie Peverill's flatmate in Clapham. I love their friendship dynamic along with their other close friend, Beryl MacBride. One afternoon, a student nurse falls from" Read more of this review »
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"Crime mystery set in CLAPHAM (London)



The novel is set in 1948 and The South London Hospital for Women & Children continues to be at the heart of the story. This is Book 2 in The Clapham Trilogy and can be read as a stand alone.

In Book 1 “The Midnight" Read more of this review »
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“Running beneath it all was the Tyburn, the dark river connecting all the places of power. It ran like a noxious strand through the weave, interlacing everything and everyone together, yet it was hidden from the view of
the people who crossed it, unknowing, on the surface.”
Julie J. Anderson, Plague

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