A native of
London, Grant-Adamson attended schools in that city and in
Wales before embarking on a journalistic career in the early 1960s; she held a string of magazine and newspaper positions before becoming a feature writer with
The Guardian, a job she left in 1980 to become a full-time freelance writer. Besides crime novels, she has written television scripts, poetry, magazine pieces, and short stories. Her novels feature Rain Morgan, a gossip columnist; private detective Laura Flynn; and American conman Jim Rush. She has written a number of non-series novels and several works of non-fiction as well. Her novel
Patterns in the Dust was nominated for a
John Creasey Award for Best First Novel. ==Works==