Kate Rhodes

Kate Rhodes is a noteworthy British writer, who lives in Cambridge and is famous for writing mystery and thriller novels and poetry. She is a full time writer of crime novels. Rhodes is particularly well known for writing the Alice Quentin book series. Author Rhodes was born in the year 1964 in London. She completed her graduation in Cambridge and then joined the Essex University. In 1993, Rhodes completed her Ph.D based on Tennessee Williams’ work. Immediately after obtaining her Ph.D degree, she took a teaching job at a school, teaching the English language to the students, and then went on to become a lecturer in university. In 2004, Rhodes received a fellowship from the Hawthornden Institute. The debut poetry collection of author Rhodes was released in 2005 by the Enitharmon Press. The first volume of the New Poet Series of Enitharmon is called Reversal. Author Rhodes is happily married and stays along with her husband named Dave Prescod in Cambridge, who is a film maker and a writer by profession. The career of poetry writing of author Rhodes is comprised of a couple of award winning poetry collections. She was awarded with the Ruth Rendell prize in 2015 for one of her short stories. After writing and publishing the 5th book of her successful Alice Quentin series, author Rhodes started working towards the development of a new crime series. She is expected to release the first novel, Hell Bay, of this new series in 2018. Hell Bay’s story takes place on a distant Cornish island called Bryher and features the chief protagonist in the role of DI Ben Kitto. The first full length novel written by Rhodes was published in 2012. With this novel, author Rhodes began her acclaimed Alice Quentin novel series, the books of which depict the lead character named Alice Quentin as a forensic psychologist living in London.