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She is Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has received many awards for her work, including the Crime Writers' Association Cartier Diamond Dagger (lifetime achievement award), and The Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence.
With more than fifty novels to her name (and her pen-name Barbara Vine), her most famous literary creation is Detective Chief Inspector Reginald Wexford, whose investigations are centred around the fictional English town of Kingsmarkham. The first Wexford outing, From Doon with Death, was also her first novel and was published in 1964.
In 1987 her second Wexford novel, Wolf to the Slaughter, was the first to be adapted for the small screen by ITV. A further 22 Kingsmarkham investigations have since been broadcast.
First Broadcast:1987
Number of Series:12
