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Liza Cody

This page lists novels and story collections by Liza Cody.

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By Liza Cody:
- novels, story collections
- co-edited anthologies

 

Liza Cody: Novels and story collections

Dupe

Liza Cody

Collins

1980

An Anna Lee novel.

"Weary of routine cases, private investigator--and ex-policewoman--Anna Lee jumps at the chance to investigate the automobile death of fledgling movie director Deirdre Jackson."
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Bad Company

Liza Cody

Collins

1982

An Anna Lee novel.

"Anna Lee and a young girl are held as prisoners, without any known reason, while the police force and her fellow private investigators conduct a desperate search."
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Stalker

Liza Cody

Collins

1984

An Anna Lee novel.

"The search for a missing man uncovers trickery and fraud and leads Anna Lee out of town to a gruesome discovery on the moors."
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Headcase

Liza Cody

Collins

1985

An Anna Lee novel.

"A highly gifted child of chilly, creepy parents disappears. They hire Anna Lee to find her."
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Under Contract

Liza Cody

Collins

1986

An Anna Lee novel.

"Anna Lee is thrown into the flamboyant world of rock star security and protection."
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Rift

Liza Cody

Collins

1988

"A solitary journey through Ethiopia becomes a labyrinthian nightmare for Fay when she is stranded without money, meets two shady travellers, and is asked to carry a letter to a woman named Natasia."
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Backhand

Liza Cody

Chatto & Windus

1991

An Anna Lee novel.

"Anna Lee zips from London to the Florida Keys in search of some missing designer clothing and teams up with a handsome American at an exclusive tennis club to solve her sixth murder mystery."
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Bucket Nut

Liza Cody

Chatto & Windus

1992

An Eva Wylie novel.

"Eva Wylie, a female wrestler and part-time security guard living in a London junkyard, becomes caught up in a lethal protection war on the city streets."
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Monkey Wrench

Liza Cody

Chatto & Windus

1994

An Eva Wylie novel.

"Eva Wylie, the heavyweight wrestler heroine of "Bucket Nut", returns. She has a big mouth and large biceps, but meets her match in tiny, tenacious Crystal, a street companion from the past. Crystal's prostitute sister has been beaten to death and she's seeking revenge."
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Musclebound

Liza Cody

Bloomsbury

1997

An Eva Wylie novel.

"A year ago, Eva Wylie was the biggest, meanest, ugliest female wrestler to disgrace the ring. Her name was on posters. People recognized her on the street. But having been barred from the ring, she's back at the bottom, reduced to guarding rich people's cars and dreaming of yesterday's triumphs."
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Gimme More

Liza Cody

Bloomsbury

2000

"Once she was the face that launched a thousand hits. Now Birdie Walker - rock widow and con-woman - is scratching at the dark heart of the music industry. Twenty years ago Birdie and her rockstar lover, Jack, were the most famous couple alive, but it is a past she can no longer live up to."
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Lucky Dip And Other Stories

Liza Cody

Crippen & Landru

2003

"Liza Cody's short stories emphasize women who are ensnared in situations not of their own making, but who (usually) survive and (sometimes) prosper. The tales run from 2 lighthearted stories set in Florida, 'Where's Stacey' and 'A Card or a Kitten' to the dark 'Woke Up One Morning,' written especially for this volume and which we (the publishers) think will be recognized as one of the finest crime and mystery stories of this decade."
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Ballad Of A Dead Nobody

Liza Cody

iUniverse

2010

"Elly Astoria had a miraculous musical talent. As a little girl she taught herself to play guitar and keyboard so that she could feed herself and her junkie mother. One rainy night she was spotted singing and playing by the founder of an indy women's band. Later, cleaned up and better fed, she caught the eye of her future manager - and his creepy sister. It should have been a rags-to-riches story. Instead Elly's career was cut short by her perverted and grisly murder. Years after her death it looks as if Elly's life has been overlooked. If anyone deserves rediscovery and a biography, it's Elly. Clearly there is a story to be told and a mystery to be solved. But how?"
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Miss Terry

Liza Cody

iUniverse

2012

"Nita Tehri's life seems sorted. She has a good job, she lives in a pretty apartment in a quiet street and she has escaped from the family who endangered her. Yet despite everything she's achieved she still has a problem. She doesn't look like her neighbours. And when a grizzly discovery is made outside her door all eyes turn towards her. She has done nothing wrong. But slowly, inexorably, her life turns inside-out. How can the people she used to think of as her friends and colleagues behave so irrationally in modern, enlightened England? Little by little her faith in society and British justice is eroded. It isn't only her belief in fair play that's threatened. One thing is certain-if she survives, her life will never be the same."
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Lady Bag

Liza Cody

iUniverse

2013

"Don't judge a book by its cover, or a bag lady by her appearance. 'I didn't always look like this' she says. 'Being barmy doesn't mean I'm stupid' Lady Bag does have her problems - her close relationship with cheap red wine, for example. When she gets hammered she talks to her dog. When she's extra-hammered her dog talks to her. Guess who makes better sense. She and her rescue greyhound, Electra, wander through the streets of London, seeing a Dickensian side of the capital city that's visible only to the homeless. Together they accept the kindness and unkindness of strangers with the same wry patience. Until, on one dreadful day, they meet the Devil outside the National Portrait Gallery."
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Edited by Liza Cody

1st Culprit: A Crime Writers' Association Annual

Editor: Liza Cody and Michael Z. Lewin

Chatto & Windus / St Martins Press

1993

An anthology of mystery stories. The contents are:

  • The mouse in the corner (Ruth Rendell)
  • As my wimsey takes me (Terence Faherty)
  • Programmed for murder (James Melville)
  • The Christmas crimes at 'Cinderella': A puzzle in four parts: Part one: Christmas Eve (Simon Brett)
  • Faery tale (Celia Dale)
  • Steady as she goes (Catherine Aird)
  • Soldiers, from the wars returning (Robert Barnard)
  • Goodbye Jenny (Penelope Wallace)
  • The Christmas at 'Cinderella': Part two: Boxing day (Simon Brett)
  • Boots (Antonia Fraser)
  • A distant affray (Roger Ormerod)
  • Trip trap (Ian Rankin)
  • Freud at thirty paces (Sara Paretsky)
  • Positive vetting (Stephen Murray)
  • Afterwards (Alida Baxter)
  • Danny pulls his weight (Liza Cody)
  • Oh, who hath done this deed? (Susan Moody)
  • The Christmas crimes at 'Cinderella': Part three: 27 December (Simon Brett)
  • Cuckoo in the wood (Lesley Grant-Anderson)
  • Mrs Craggs hears the nightingale (HRF Keating)
  • In those days (Liza Cody)
  • Sister Brona and the pornographic diary (Alex Auswaks)
  • Gifts from the bridegroom (Margaret Yorke)
  • The Christmas crimes at 'Cinderella': Part four: December 28 (Simon Brett)
  • Stonestar (Reginald Hill)
  • The last Sara (Susan Kelly)
  • The rape of Kingdom Hill (Dick Francis)
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2nd Culprit: A Crime Writers' Association Annual

Editor: Liza Cody and Michael Z. Lewin

Chatto & Windus / St Martins Press

1994

An anthology of mystery stories. The contents are:

  • Better to forget (Susan Moody)
  • The frustration dream (Ellis Peters)
  • The Duke (Eric Wright)
  • The curious computer (Peter Lovesey)
  • The last resort (Margaret Yorke)
  • Exquisitely gowned - revising my first novel fifty years on (Eric Ambler)
  • Jemima Shore and the frightened girl (Antonia Fraser)
  • True Thomas (Reginald Hill)
  • Betrayal (Nancy Livingston)
  • Boss (Liza Cody)
  • Cryptic crime acrostic (Sarah Caudwell & Liza Cody)
  • The image of innocence (Madelaine Duke)
  • First lead gasser (Tony Hillerman)
  • Sister Brona and the sacred altar cloths (Alex Auswaks)
  • Turning point (Anthea Fraser)
  • Professor Kaa's doorway (Peter O'Donnell)
  • The last kiss (Susan Kelly)
  • The mood cuckoo (Jonathan Gash)
  • Dishonourable members (Carole Rawcliffe)
  • Slight of hand (Catherine Aird)
  • Incident at Millionaires' Row (H.R.F. Keating)
  • Working with Suzie (Jean McConnell)
  • A vacance en campagne (Tim Heald)
  • Well shot (Ian Rankin)
  • Where's Stacey? (Liza Cody)
  • Keep taking the tabloids (Robert Barnard)
  • A little missionary work (Sue Grafton)
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3rd Culprit: A Crime Writers' Association Annual

Editor: Liza Cody, Michael Z. Lewin and Peter Lovesey

Chatto & Windus / St Martins Press

1995

An anthology of mystery stories. The contents are:

  • A Needle For The Devil (Ruth Rendell)
  • The Hampstead Vegetable Heist (Mat Coward)
  • Mr. Idd (H.R.F. Keating)
  • The Birdman Of Bow Street (Joan Lock)
  • Someone Got To Eddie (Ian Rankin)
  • Too Many Crooks (Donald E. Westlake)
  • The Writing On The Wall (Val Mcdermid)
  • Social Work (William G. Tapply)
  • Six In The Morning (Maxim Jakubowski)
  • The Hand That Feeds Me (Michael Z. Lewin)
  • The Butcher Of St. Pierre (Susan Kelly)
  • The Great Tetsuji (Sara Paretsky)
  • Cryptic Crime Acrostic (Sarah Caudwell & Michael Z. Lewin)
  • The Train (Stephen Murray)
  • Fancy (Bill James)
  • The Crumple Zone (John Malcolm)
  • Good Investments (Celia Dale)
  • Chased Delights, Or, The Missing Minutes (Keith Heller)
  • The Christmas Present (Bob Lock)
  • Something Happened At The Time (Madelaine Duke)
  • Night Flight (James Melville)
  • Give Us A Clue (Joan Lock)
  • Second Best Man (David Williams)
  • Trumpets For Max Jericho (Robert Brack)
  • Cold And Deep (Frances Fyfield)
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Last updated March 2018