Anna Dean

Author profile

born

Cumberland, England, The United Kingdom

gender

female

website

http://www.annadean.co.uk/

genre

Mystery & Thrillers, Historical Fiction

influences

Jane Austen, Agatha Christie

About this author

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Anna Dean was born in Cumberland (now part of Cumbria) in England in 1956. She moved to the Midlands as a child but as she grew older she became determined to return to the Lake District and, after a few years living in Wales, she moved back to Cumbria in 1984. She lives near Ambleside with her husband.

Dean has worked as an assistant to a psychologist; she has worked for the National Trust; she has taught Creative Writing and worked for the Wordsworth Trust at Grasmere in the Lake District; and she has an MA in Creative Writing.

"Anna Dean" is a pen name adopted for the Dido Kent series of historical crime novels set in the Regency period – the time of Jane Austen.Under her ‘real name’, Marian Veevers, she published an historical novel, 'Blo...more

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Books by Anna Dean

Average rating: 3.57 · 727 ratings · 179 reviews · 3 distinct works

	Bellfield Hall (A Dido Kent Mystery, #1) 3.47 avg rating — 439 ratings — published 2008 — 12 editions	My rating:
	A Gentleman of Fortune (A Dido Kent Mystery #2) 3.59 avg rating — 174 ratings — published 2009 — 9 editions	My rating:
	A Woman of Consequence (A Dido Kent Mystery, #3) 3.92 avg rating — 72 ratings — published 2010 — 9 editions	My rating:

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Series by Anna Dean

A Dido Kent Mystery (3 books)
by Anna Dean

3.55 avg rating — 685 ratings

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