JANET LAURENCE is the author of the Darina Lisle culinary crime novels and the historical mystery series featuring Canaletto (both Macmillan). She was a weekly cookery columnist for the Daily Telegraph between 1984 and 1986, has written cookery books and contributed to recipe collections. Janet was Chairman of the Crime Writers’ Association between 1998 and 1999, included in The Times’ ‘100 Masters of Crime’ in 1998, and was invited to run the crime-writing workshop at the Cheltenham Festival of Literature in 2000. She runs a number of crime-writing courses including at the Bristol CrimeFest conventions. She lives in Somerset.
Cover illustration: Holloway Prison at the turn of the century.