Maureen Carter
Maureen Carter used to work as a BBC TV journalist. She’s the creator of two crime series that feature strong female detectives and she generally throws a stroppy reporter into the blend!
After starting her career in journalism as a newspaper reporter, she joined BRMB in Birmingham in what were the early days of commercial radio. Her job description back in those non-PC years was Newswoman! She then moved to Pebble Mill where she joined BBC TV News and Current Affairs as a broadcast journalist. Maureen stayed almost 20 years in various posts including reporter, presenter and producer, and became the BBC’s first woman AEN (assistant editor news) outside London. She loved producing live news but still had a burning ambition to become an author, so became a freelance journalist – only to spend most of her time writing fiction.
Her first novel Working Girls was published in 2001 and introduced DS Bev Morriss. Her second series debuted in 2011 with A Question of Despair featuring DI Sarah – Ice Queen – Quinn and the TV reporter, Caroline King.
Books by Maureen Carter
DI Sarah Quinn is faced with an unhelpful mother and an interfering TV reporter as she investigates the kidnap of a Birmingham schoolgirl.
Reviewed on 08 February 2014 by Sharon Wheeler
