A TALE of politics and death set in a town based on Leominster during the 1918 general election has won a Herefordshire crime writer a prestigious literary award.
Gillian Linscott, of Hope-under-Dinmore, was honoured by the Crime Writers' Association at a ceremony in central London as the winner of the Ellis Peters Historical Dagger prize.
Her novel 'Absent Friends', featuring feisty lead character Nell Bray, impressed judges including Lindsay Davis, author of the Marcus Didius Falco novels, and Susanna Yager, crime fiction reviewer for the Sunday Telegraph.
They unanimously declared Gillian the winner from a shortlist of eight, representing major publishers like Harper Collins, Virago, Macmillan and Orion.
Last month, Gillian's husband, Tony Geraghty, was in London to receive the Press Freedom Award for his defiance of Government efforts to censor his non-fiction history 'The Irish War'.
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