Jessica Mann

Who is Jessica Mann?

Jessica Mann is a British writer. As a novelist she specialises in the mystery and suspense genres, having published 21 crime novels since 1971. She has also written several non-fiction books, including Out of Harm's Way, the story of the overseas evacuation of children during World War 2.

Mann was educated at St Paul's Girls' School and Newnham College, Cambridge, where she read Archaeology, and the University of Leicester, from which she has a degree in Law. She has written features, comment and reviews for the Literary Review magazine, The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph, Western Morning News, House & Garden and others. She has appeared on TV and radio programmes including Any Questions and Question Time and represented the South West on Round Britain Quiz.

She lives near Truro in Cornwall and is married to the archaeologist and historian Charles Thomas; the couple married a week after Mann completed her Cambridge finals in 1959, and have two sons and two daughters.