Rebecca Tope
Born
Rebecca Tope

(1948-10-02) 2 October 1948 (age 75)
Cheshire
NationalityBritish
Occupation(s)Author, journalist

Rebecca Tope is a British crime novelist and journalist. She is the author of three murder mystery series, featuring the fictional characters of Den Cooper, a Devon police detective; Drew Slocombe, a former nurse, now an undertaker; Thea Osborne, a house sitter in the Cotswolds; and Persimmon Brown, a florist in the Lake District. Tope is also ghost writer of the novels based on the ITV series Rosemary and Thyme.[1][2][3]

Background

Rebecca Tope was born on 2 October 1948, in Worcestershire, and has lived in many parts of England since then. She has nearly 40 crime novels in print, published by Allison & Busby. Her two main series are set in the Cotswolds and the Lake District, both featuring amateur female detectives.

She lives on a smallholding in Herefordshire, but has had no livestock for some years. The acres have been returned to the wildlife, which includes a lot of brambles and thistles.

She founded a small press, Praxis Books, in 1992, which has concentrated almost exclusively on reissuing the works of Sabine Baring-Gould (1834–1924). She has also written and published a definitive biography of Baring-Gould.

Tope's hobbies mainly centre around wool, antique auctions and travel.

Bibliography

The Cotswold Mysteries

West Country Mysteries

Lake District Mysteries

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Ghostwritten

Three novelisations of Rosemary and Thyme, credited to ITV series creator Brian Eastman, which were published in Britain by Allison and Busby and in Australia by Hardie Grant Books:

Awards

References

  1. ^ "Profile". Knight Hall agency. Archived from the original on 18 March 2014.
  2. ^ "A choice of recent crime fiction", The Spectator 24 March 2001
  3. ^ "Words and music to raise the rafters". The Forester. 20 May 2010.
  4. ^ "Murder detectives sought". Evesham Journal. 27 April 2008. Retrieved 8 June 2019.
  5. ^ "Best-selling author in Broadway book signing". Evesham Journal. 21 March 2010. Retrieved 8 June 2019.
  6. ^ "Evesham Journal New Book Launch 23 November 2009". Retrieved 8 June 2019.
  7. ^ a b "Books by Rebecca Tope". allisonandbusby.com. Retrieved 23 December 2019.
  8. ^ "Crimefile", The Birmingham Post 10 April 1999
  9. ^ "Tripping down the yellow brick road to murder." Chicago Sun-Times 5 August 2001
  10. ^ "Glory amid the gore", The Scotsman 17 June 2000
  11. ^ "Encarta Book of Quotations" Birmingham Evening Mail, 21 October 2000
  12. ^ "A cosmopolitan kiss of death" The Scotsman 9 December 2000
  13. ^ "Make the detective fit the crime". Telegraph.co.uk. 31 August 2001. Retrieved 8 June 2019.
  14. ^ "Fiction Review: Sting of Death by Rebecca Tope, Author Minotaur Books…". Archived from the original on 1 February 2013.
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