Anthologies#
| Title |
Published |
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| Truly Criminal |
2015 |
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Black & Dod Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
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| The Magic Chair Murder |
2018 |
Buy |
| The Poisoned Chalice Murder |
2022 |
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| The Missing Diamond Murder |
2019 |
Buy |
Non-Fiction#
| Title |
Published |
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| Edwardian Murder |
2007 |
Buy |
| Poisonous Lies |
2010 |
Buy |
| The Case of the Poisoned Partridge |
2013 |
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| Death at Wolf’s Nick |
2017 |
Buy |
Standalone Novels#
| Title |
Published |
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| Pull of the Moon |
2010 |
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| Why Don’t You Come For Me? |
2011 |
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| Swimming in the Shadows |
2014 |
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| Stick or Twist |
2016 |
Buy |
| A Stroke of Bad Luck |
2019 |
Buy |
| The Skeleton Tree |
2021 |
Buy |
Diane Janes grew up in Birmingham, England, where she developed a love of reading and first tried writing. Her career has spanned everything from mortgages to engineering, but she is now a full-time author specializing in crime fiction and investigative non-fiction. She has been shortlisted for a Crime Writers Association Dagger on three occasions and received a CWA Red Herring award for services to crime writing.
Her fiction covers a wide range within the crime genre. The Black and Dod series offers cozy, Christie-style mysteries set in the 1930s, while standalone novels like Swimming in the Shadows and Why Don’t You Come For Me? are darker psychological thrillers. She has also blended fact and fiction, as in A Stroke of Bad Luck, which proposes a possible explanation for a real unsolved murder.
On the non-fiction side, Janes has written several well-regarded investigations into actual British murder cases. Edwardian Murder, her first book, appeared in 2007, and she has since produced accounts of cases including the Evelyn Foster mystery (Death at Wolf’s Nick) and the Chevis poisoning (The Case of the Poisoned Partridge).
Frequently Asked Questions
How many books has Diane Janes written?
Diane Janes has written fourteen books across four series.
What was Diane Janes's first book?
Diane Janes’s first book is Edwardian Murder, published in 2007.
Does Diane Janes write fiction or non-fiction?
Diane Janes writes both. Her fiction includes the 1930s-set Black and Dod mystery series and psychological thrillers like Swimming in the Shadows and Stick or Twist. Her non-fiction works investigate real British murder cases, including Death at Wolf’s Nick about the Evelyn Foster case and The Case of the Poisoned Partridge about the Chevis murder.