Denise Danks

Denise Danks (born 1953) is a British novelist and journalist. She has twice been shortlisted for the Gold Dagger by Crime Writers' Association. In 1994 she became the first woman to receive the Chandler award. Before becoming a novelist, she was a computer journalist based in Wanstead, East London.

Early life

Danks was born in 1953. Her mother was Greek and her father was an English RAF pilot. She is a graduate of St Luke's Campus, University of Exeter. After graduation, she joined The West Briton newspaper as technology reporter. She left journalism to concentrate on fiction in 1987.

Novels

Danks has written a series of novels featuring Georgina Powers, the character originally created by Enid Blyton for the children's series, The Famous Five. In Danks's novels, George is an adult and has become a computer journalist and amateur detective.

In 1994, the Fulbright Program selected Danks as the winner of a Raymond Chandler Award, following a recommendation by Ian Rankin. The prize paid for her to travel to California, where she spent six months working on a proposal for a television crime drama.

Selected works

Georgina Powers

  • Pizza House Crash (1989, Futura; also published as User Deadly in the United States)
  • Better Off Dead (1991, Macdonald & Co)
  • Frame Grabber (1992, Constable & Co)
  • Wink a Hopeful Eye (1993, Macmillan)
  • Phreak (1998, Victor Gollancz)
  • Baby Love (2001, Orion)

Standalone

  • Torso (1999, Victor Gollancz)

Short stories

References

  1. 1 2 de Lisle, Tim (25 April 1988). "Weekend of words finds a top talker". The Daily Telegraph. p. 40.
  2. ↑ Saari, Laura (9 October 1994). "Simpson subculture confounds stranger in strange land". The Burlington Free Press. p. 10.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 Ripley, Mike (28 June 2012). "Author Profile: Denise Danks". Ostara Publishing. Archived from the original on 24 June 2021.
  4. 1 2 "Denise rings all the changes". Worcester News. 28 November 1998. p. 19.
  5. 1 2 3 "Hi-tech whodunnit". The West Briton. 11 October 1990. p. 34.
  6. 1 2 3 McLellan, Dennis (29 November 1994). "A Briton's American Independence". The Los Angeles Times. pp. E4.
  7. 1 2 Brace, Marianne (6 November 1998). "What George did next". The Independent. p. 44.
  8. ↑ "User Deadly". Kirkus Reviews. 15 November 1991.
  9. ↑ Binyon, T.J. (9 April 1992). "Keyboard killers". Evening Standard. p. 44.
  10. ↑ "Frame Grabber". Kirkus Reviews. 15 November 1992.
  11. ↑ Delman, David (18 June 1995). "Mysteries". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. 150.
  12. ↑ "Wink a Hopeful Eye". Kirkus Reviews. 1 October 1994.
  13. ↑ Fertile, Candace (11 November 2001). "Sometimes sex and violence fit well in plot". Times Colonist. p. 50.