Born February 26, 1949 in Warren, Ohio. She is a graduate of University of California in Riverside. She also attended California State University at Fullerton, where she was awarded a master's degree in Counseling/Psychology and an honorary doctorate of humane letters
Professionally, she started out as a teacher. She was employed at Mater Dei High School in Santa Ana initially, but there she gave in to her bent for organized labor and was summarily fired along with ten other teachers for union activity. She moved on to El Toro High School in El Toro, California (now called Lake Forest, California), where she remained for the rest of her career as high school English teacher. While employed there, she was selected Orange County Teacher of the Year, a tribute in part to the work she'd done with remedial students for nearly a decade. While teaching a class on mystery novels she began to play around with writing. She has managed to stay a bestselling authors ever since. When Elizabeth George's first novel, A Great Deliverance, was published in 1988, reviewers showered it with accolades and marveled at the accurate depiction of British life and mores by a Californian. The novel garnered George nominations for a Macavity Award and an Edgar and won the Anthony and Agatha Awards as well as Le Grande Prix de Littèrature Policière in France. Her Thomas Lynley series is wonderful and if you haven't read them, I would suggest trying one. Her latest in the series is Careless in Red and finds Thomas Lynley struggling after a personal crisis. Her newest novel, Two of the deadliest: New Tales of Lust, Greed, and Murder from Outstanding Women of Mystery is due out in July.
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