Awards & Winners

Frances Fyfield

Date of Birth 18-November-1948
Place of Birth Derbyshire
(United Kingdom, East Midlands, United Kingdom, with Dependencies and Territories)
Nationality United Kingdom
Also know as Frances Hegarty
Profession Writer, Lawyer
Frances Fyfield is the pseudonym of Frances Hegarty, a lawyer and crime-writer. Born and brought up in Derbyshire, Hegarty was mostly educated in convent schools before reading English at Newcastle University. After graduating, she took a course in criminal law. She worked initially for the Metropolitan Police and later the Crown Prosecution Service. She claims "After a long diet of criminal law, including dangerous dogs, rape, mayhem and much, much murder, the indigestion of pity and fury provoked me to write. I wanted to write romance, but the domestically macabre always got in the way." She has won several awards, including the Crime Writers' Association Duncan Lawrie Dagger for Blood From Stone in 2008 and the Silver Dagger for Deep Sleep. In addition, her novel, Safer than Houses was nominated for the Duncan Lawrie Dagger in 2006. She also writes psychological thrillers under the name of Frances Hegarty, among them, The Playroom, Half Light and Let's Dance, which was published in 1995. Her novels have been translated into 14 languages. Several have been adapted for television. Fyfield's Helen West series has twice been adapted for television. Juliet Stevenson played Helen West in Trial by Fire and Amanda Burton later took on the role in a successful British television series in 2002.

Awards by Frances Fyfield

Check all the awards nominated and won by Frances Fyfield.

1990


Nominations 1990 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Edgar Award for Best Novel A Question of Guilt