She has worked as a magazine editor but is now a full-time writer.
With her debut, The Ice House, she won the Crime Writers’ Association John Creasey Award for the best first crime novel of 1992. Rapidly establishing a reputation as one of the most exciting crime novelists writing today. Her second novel, The Sculptress, was acclaimed by critics as one of the most compelling and powerful novels of the year and won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for the best crime novel published in America in 1993. In 1994 Minette Walters achieved a unique triple when The Scold’s Bridle was awarded the CWA Gold Dagger for best crime novel of the year. Her fourth novel, The Dark Room (1995), was published to further critical acclaim, as was her most recent title The Echo (1997).
In 1996 The Sculptress was adapted as a major BBC1 drama series, starring Pauline Quirke, and became the most successful television drama of recent years.
This success was repeated in 1997 with the BBC’s adaptation of The Ice House. The Scold’s Bridle, starring Miranda Richardson, Sian Phillips and Bob Peck, is currently in production.
