Born in
Bolton,
Lancashire, Grant was educated at St Peter and St Paul's Primary School, then
Thornleigh College, before studying medicine and qualifying as a doctor. He served in the
British Army, attaining the rank of Major in the
Royal Army Medical Corps, and has also worked as a
general practitioner and as a
pathologist. Between 1971 and 1988 he was director of bacteriology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine of the
University of London. Grant won the
John Creasey Award in 1977 for his first
Lovejoy novel,
The Judas Pair. He is also the author of a series of medical thrillers featuring the character Dr Clare Burtonall, and a novel,
The Incomer, as Graham Gaunt. He has also published work in the periodical
Postscripts. Grant lives near
Colchester in
Essex, the setting for many of his novels. ==Bibliography==