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Cath Staincliffe

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Bradford, The United Kingdom

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Cath Staincliffe is a best-selling, award-winning novelist, radio playwright and the creator of ITV's hit series, Blue Murder, starring Caroline Quentin as DCI Janine Lewis. Cath's books have been short-listed for the British Crime Writers Association best first novel award, for the Dagger in the Library and selected as Le Masque de l'Année. In 2012 Cath won the CWA Short Story Dagger for Laptop, sharing the prize with Margaret Murphy with her story The Message. Cath was shortlisted again with Night Nurse in 2014. Cath's Sal Kilkenny private eye series features a single-parent sleuth working the mean streets of Manchester. Trio, a stand-alone novel moved away from crime to explore adoption and growing up in the 1960s, inspired by Cath's own ...more

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Average rating: 4.15 · 24,313 ratings · 1,787 reviews · 59 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Fells (Detectives Donovan & Young #1) 4.26 avg rating — 3,517 ratings — published 2024 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blue Murder (Janine Lewis #1) 4.17 avg rating — 2,466 ratings — published 2004 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lost Girls of St Ann’s 4.21 avg rating — 2,107 ratings — published 2002 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hit and Run (Janine Lewis #2) 4.28 avg rating — 1,526 ratings — published 2006 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Complete Blue Murder Mysteries Books 1–4 (Janine Lewis #1-4) 4.48 avg rating — 1,355 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Silence Between Breaths 4.15 avg rating — 1,318 ratings — published 2016 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fire on the Fells (Detectives Donovan & Young #2) 4.32 avg rating — 1,244 ratings — published 2025 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Make Believe (Janine Lewis #3) 4.38 avg rating — 1,109 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Desperate Measures (Janine Lewis #4) 4.34 avg rating — 1,058 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Girl in the Green Dress 4.18 avg rating — 916 ratings — published 2017 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Twelve Top Reads

These titles have kept me absorbed and often moved over the last few weeks. There were a few others that I gave up on (life’s way too short to keep reading something I’m not enjoying) but I prefer to celebrate and spread the word about books I like rather than diss the ones I don’t. Perhaps you’ll find something here that you’ll enjoy. Happy reading!

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“She read her way around the library, hungry for journeys, adventures, laughter and passion. She took each new book to bed like a lover, savouring every chapter, going too far some nights until the letters danced like insects and she was groggy next day at work. But still she'd sneak away for lunchtime trysts, her eager fingers fumbling for the bookmark.”
― Cath Staincliffe

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Polls

Group Read for July 2017...top two selections will be our reads for the month!

The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon

4 votes, 22.2%

The Dark Lake by Sarah Bailey

3 votes, 16.7%

Lying in Wait by Liz Nugent

3 votes, 16.7%

The Missing Ones (Detective Lottie Parker, #1) by Patricia Gibney

The Missing Ones by Patricia Gibney

2 votes, 11.1%

The Twilight Wife by A.J. Banner

2 votes, 11.1%

Black Ice by Anne Stuart

1 vote, 5.6%

A Cold Dark Place (Cold Justice, #1) by Toni Anderson

A Cold Dark Place by Toni Anderson

1 vote, 5.6%

Missing Pieces by Heather Gudenkauf

1 vote, 5.6%

The Memory Closet by Ninie Hammon

1 vote, 5.6%

Some Kind of Peace by Camilla Grebe

0 votes, 0.0%

Grave Intent by Deborah Leblanc

0 votes, 0.0%

Blue Murder (Janine Lewis, #1) by Cath Staincliffe

Blue Murder by Cath Staincliffe

0 votes, 0.0%

The Shut Eye by Belinda Bauer

0 votes, 0.0%

The Day I Died by Lori Rader-Day

0 votes, 0.0%

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