Hilary Bonner
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Hilary Bonner (born 1949) is an English crime novelist, best known for her psychological thrillers. Almost all Bonner's novels are inspired by real life events, often drawing on her journalistic past.
Biography
Bonner, a former chairman of the
Her published work includes ten novels, five non fiction books, two ghosted autobiographies, one ghosted biography, two companions to TV programmers, and a number of short stories.
Work
Her novel The Dead Cry Out draws on her real life experience of living next door to a murderer. Its inspiration is the case of John Allen, Bonner's friend and neighbour during the 1980s, who in 2003 was found guilty of the murder of his wife and two children 27 years previously.
No Reason to Die, her most controversial book, focuses on the series of unexplained deaths at
Her novel The Cruellest Game, first published by Macmillan in 2013, is set on Dartmoor. It charts the cataclysmic collapse of a woman's apparently perfect life when she finds that almost everything in it is based upon a lie.
The Times described her as 'keeping on the public agenda the stories our masters would prefer buried.'
Personal life
Actress
Books
Fiction
- The Cruelty of Morning, 1995
- A Fancy to Kill For, 1997
- A Passion So Deadly, 1998
- For Death Comes Softly, 1999
- A Deep Deceit, 2000
- A Kind of Wild Justice, 2001
- A Moment of Madness, 2002
- When the Dead Cry Out, 2003
- No Reason to Die, 2004
- The Cruellest Game, 2013
- Friends to Die For, 2014
- Death Comes First, 2015
- Deadly Dance, 2017
- Wheel of Fire, 2018
- Dreams of Fear, 2019
- Cry Darkness, 2020
- The Danger within, 2021
Non Fiction
- René and Me: the story of Gorden Kaye. with Gorden Kaye, 1989,
- Benny: a biography of Benny Hill, with Dennis Kirkland 1992
- Journeyman, with Clive Gunnell, 1994
- Heartbeat – the Real Life Story 1994
- It's Not a Rehearsal, the autobiography of Amanda Barrie, with Amanda Barrie, 2002
External links
References
- ^ Anglesey, Natalie (13 July 2006). "Amanda's Bad and loving it!". Manchester Evening News. Archived from the original on 21 April 2013. Retrieved 1 June 2015.
- ^ Walters, Sarah (8 August 2016). "Former Corrie star Amanda Barrie says she feared her sexuality would ruin her career". Manchester Evening News.
- ^ Natalie Anglesey (13 July 2006). "Amanda's Bad and loving it!". Manchester Evening News.
- ^ Jackie McGlone (20 October 2002). "Let Sleeping Actors Lie". Scotland on Sunday. Archived from the original on 20 September 2004.