V. B. Grey
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V. B. Grey

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense | Literature & Fiction
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Hello and thank you for visiting my author page. I usually write as Isabelle Grey, but chose the pseudonym V.B. Grey when wanting to take a slightly different approach to my fiction after many years of writing about crime. As V.B. Grey I've published two historical thrillers, both set in the 20th century. 'Tell Me How It Ends' echoes the clever plots and dark emotional twists of noir movies and black & white melodramas - as well as the glamour of their stars. After many years of writing screenplays myself, I wanted to immerse myself in stories inspired by my favourite films, and to create strong female characters who might once have been played by Barbara Stanwyck, Bette Davis, Anne Baxter or Joan Crawford. Growing up in the 1960s, I couldn't help but be aware of the long shadow cast by the Second World War, especially over my own family. 'Sisterhood’ is loosely based on my late parents' recollections of when they met as junior doctors in the East End of London in 1944, coping with the first V2 rocket attacks, and falling in love. But is it also a fictional investigation into what I don't know - possibly because her work was secret - about how my mother's twin sister spent her war, in uniform in London, with her romantic Polish lover. I grew up in Manchester and have lived in London and also in rural Kent, on a former tidal island near the Romney Marsh. I now live and work in London. I began writing in my twenties as a freelance arts journalist and non-fiction author (as Isabelle Anscombe) before going on to contribute features and reviews to national newspapers and magazines, including The Times, Guardian, Cosmopolitan, Vogue and Country Living, and then selling my first television drama idea to the BBC. I since have contributed numerous episodes to such long-running series as The Bill, Wycliffe, Midsomer Murders and Jimmy McGovern's Accused, as well as screenplays and scripts for film, docu-drama and radio drama. I have taught screenwriting at the University of the Arts, London, and am the film critic for The Tablet newspaper. Do please check out my other novels: two of psychological suspense, 'Out of Sight' and 'The Bad Mother', and a series of four contemporary crime novels set in Essex and featuring D.I. Grace Fisher. You can follow me on Twitter @IsabelleGrey
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