Dorothy Cannell


Dorothy Cannell is an English-American mystery writer.

Biography

Dorothy Cannell was born in London, England. She moved to the United States in 1963 at the age of 20. She married Julian Cannell in 1964 and they lived in Peoria, Illinois, for many years before moving to Belfast, Maine. She is a mother of four and a grandmother of ten.

Ellie Haskell series

  1. The Thin Woman
  2. The Widow's Club
  3. Mum's the Word
  4. Femmes Fatal
  5. How to Murder Your Mother-In-Law
  6. How to Murder the Man of Your Dreams
  7. The Spring Cleaning Murders
  8. The Trouble with Harriet
  9. Bridesmaids Revisited
  10. The Importance of Being Ernestine
  11. Withering Heights
  12. Goodbye, Ms. Chips
  13. She Shoots to Conquer

    Other novels and collections

Cannell's 1988 novel The Widows Club was nominated for the "Best Novel" award at the 1989 Anthony Awards and the Agatha Awards in the same year. She was also nominated for a "Best Short Story" Agatha Award in 1991, for "The High Cost of Living"; 1992, for "The January Sales Stowaway"; and 1996, for "Cupid's Arrow".
In 2014 Cannell received the Malice Domestic Award for Lifetime Achievement.