![]() ![]() The first of the mysteries, Missing, Presumed, sold in a publishing auction, became in international bestseller, and was shortlisted for the Theakston Crime Novel of the Year Award.īut she also suffered several serious health issues. ![]() Steiner wrote a debut literary novel and then three mysteries in the Manon trilogy. Susie Steiner died on July 2 at age 51, leaving behind her husband and two young sons. Now, with the recent news of her passing, I feel all the more that I wish I’d had the chance to meet her. In the end, though, knowing of her grave illness at the time, I decided the choice was inappropriate and named someone else. From her social media and interviews, she came across as smart, brutally honest, and unlikely to suffer fools. ![]() In my mind, I imagined it would be an opportunity to be in the presence, even for a short time, of the author who created detective Manon Bradshaw. I wanted to say Susie Steiner in a pub somewhere in Cambridge, England, where Steiner’s novels are set. Earlier this year, when my second novel was published, an interviewer asked me which writer, alive or dead, I’d like to meet and under what circumstances. ![]()
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