Katherine Jean "Kate" Ross (June 21, 1956 – March 12, 1998) was an American mystery author who wrote four books set in Regency-era England about the dandy Julian Kestrel.

Works

The novels are:

• Cut to the Quick (1994), which won the 1994 Gargoyle award for in the category of Best Historical Mystery
• A Broken Vessel (1995)
• Whom the Gods Love (1996)^[1]
• The Devil in Music (1997), which won the 1997 Agatha Award for in the category of Best Novel.^[2]The Lullaby Cheat (1997), a short story featuring Kestrel, is included in the mystery anthology Crime Through Time, edited by Miriam Grace Monfredo and Sharan Newman.

Her short story, The Unkindest Cut, was published in the 1998 anthology Past Poisons: An Ellis Peters Memorial Anthology of Historical Crime.^{[citation needed]}

Education

The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward A. Ross, Kate Ross attended Wellesley College and Yale Law School. A trial lawyer, she worked at Sullivan & Worcester (a Boston law firm) until 1981. She then began her career as a novelist.^[3]

Death

Ross died of breast cancer in 1998 at the age of 41, and is interred in Wellesley, Massachusetts.^[4]