Maureen Jennings


Maureen Jennings is a British Canadian writer, most well-known for the Detective Murdoch Series, the basis for the television series Murdoch Mysteries.

Biography

Maureen Jennings was born and grew up in Birmingham, England. She attended Saltley Grammar School. Jennings emigrated to Canada with her mother when she was seventeen. She studied psychology and philosophy at the University of Windsor, and an MA in English Literature at the University of Toronto. Jennings initially taught at Ryerson Polytechnical Institute, and later practised as a psychotherapist. Her first successful writing was stage plays.
Jennings is best known as the author of the Detective Murdoch Series, which has been turned into a television series, the Murdoch Mysteries. As of 2019, her most recent novel, Heat Wave, introduces Murdoch's son as a police detective in 1936.
The television drama Bomb Girls was based on a concept Jennings developed.
Jennings was awarded the Grant Allen Award in 2011 as a pioneer in crime fiction.
She lives in Toronto.

Fiction

Detective Murdoch series

, who was appointed as Ontario's first government detective in 1875, "was an important inspiration" for Jennings, and led to the development of the character William Murdoch.
  1. Except the Dying, adapted into the TV film Except the Dying in May 2004
  2. Under the Dragon's Tail, adapted into the TV film Under the Dragon's Tail in September 2004
  3. Poor Tom Is Cold, adapted into the TV film Poor Tom Is Cold in May 2005
  4. Let Loose the Dogs, adapted for episode 6 of Murdoch Mysteries in February 2008
  5. Night's Child
  6. Vices of My Blood
  7. A Journeyman to Grief
  8. Let Darkness Bury the Dead

    Christine Morris series

  9. Does Your Mother Know?
  10. The K Handshape

    Detective Inspector Tom Tyler series

  11. Season of Darkness
  12. Beware This Boy
  13. No Known Grave
  14. Dead Ground in Between

    Charlotte Frayne, PI

  15. Heat Wave: A Paradise Café Mystery

    Non-fiction

  16. The Map of Your Mind: Journeys Into Creative Expression