Rachel McLean
Rachel McLean | |
|---|---|
 McLean at Sandbanks in Dorset | |
| Education | University of Nottingham |
| Genre | Crime fiction |
| Notable awards | 2021 Kindle Storyteller Award |
| Website | |
| rachelmclean | |
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Rachel McCollin, Rachel McLean or R.E. McLean[1] is a British writer of crime and speculative fiction. She has series set in Dorset, Cumbria, London and Birmingham. She won the 2021 Kindle Storyteller Award for her novel The Corfe Castle Murders[2][3] and was one of the most popular UK authors on Amazon Kindle during its first decade.[4]
McLean began her career working in politics for Labour and then became a WordPress web developer.[5] She appeared at a 2014 Women in Tech event in Birmingham[6] and was shortlisted for a 2015 Midlands Woman of the Year award.[7]
Early and personal life
McLean is from Birmingham. She would holiday with her family in Dorset as a child.[8] McLean attended King Edward VI School in Edgbaston and graduated from the University of Nottingham.
As she has chronic pain from a collar bone injury, McLean has a transcriber to help type her novels.[8] Her wife Sally works at the University of Birmingham.[9]
Bibliography
The Village
- Thicker Than Water (2018) (originally Exile)[10]
- The Flood (prequel)
- Sea of Lies (2019)
- One of Us (2019)
Division Bell
- A House Divided (2018)[11]
- Torn in Two (2018, prequel)
- Divide and Rule (2018)
- Divided We Stand (2018)
Detective Zoe Finch
- Deadly Wishes (2020)[12]
- Deadly Origins (2020, prequel)
- Deadly Choices (2020)
- Deadly Desires (2020)
- Deadly Terror (2020)
- Deadly Reprisal (2021)
- Deadly Fallout (2021)
- Deadly Christmas (2022)
Dorset Crime
- The Corfe Castle Murders (2021)[13]
- The Ballard Down Murder (2022, prequel)
- The Clifftop Murders (2021)
- The Island Murders (2021)
- The Riverside Murder (2022, 3.5)
- The Monument Murders (2021)
- The Millionaire Murders (2022)
- The Fossil Beach Murders (2022)
- The Blue Pool Murders (2023)[14]
- The Lochside Murder (2023, 7.5)
- The Lighthouse Murders (2023)
- The Ghost Village Murders (2023)
- The Poole Harbour Murders (2025)
McBride & Tanner
- Blood and Money (2022)
- Death and Poetry (2023)[15]
- Power and Treachery (2024)
- Secrets and History (2025)
Cumbria Crime
Co-written with Joel Hames
- The Harbour (2023)
- The Mine (2024)
- The Cairn (2024)
- The Raid (2024, 3.5)
- The Barn (2024)
- The Wood (2025)
London Cozy Mysteries
Co-written with Millie Ravensworth
- Death at Westminster (2023)
- Death in the West End (2023)
- Death at Tower Bridge (2023)
- Death on the Thames (2024)
- Death at St Paul's Cathedral (2024)
- Death at Abbey Road (2024)
Speculative fiction
- Christmas in the Multiverse (2018)
- Murder in the Multiverse (2019)[16]
- Schrödinger and the Quantum Witch (2020)
- Lost in the Multiverse (2020)
- A Rift in Space and Crime (2020)
Non-fiction
- WordPress Theme Development: Beginner's Guide (2008)
- WordPress Mobile Web Development Beginner's Guide (2012)
- WordPress: Pushing the Limits (2013)
- WordPress 4.0 Site Blueprints (2015)
- 5 Steps to Author Success: Write books readers love and become a full time writer (2021)
References
- ↑ "Rachel McLean". Crime Writers. Retrieved 21 December 2024.
- ↑ Bayley, Sian (22 October 2021). "McLean wins £20k Kindle Storyteller Award". The Bookseller. Retrieved 13 December 2024.
- ↑ "'The Corfe Castle Murders' by Rachel McLean crowned winner of the 2021 Kindle Storyteller Award". About Amazon. 22 October 2021. Retrieved 18 December 2024.
- ↑ "Amazon Celebrates a Decade of Kindle Unlimited". Amazon. 3 September 2024. Retrieved 13 December 2024.
- ↑ Pick, Michael (6 June 2013). "Rachel McCollin interview". Code Poet. Retrieved 18 December 2024.
- ↑ Brown, Graeme (29 May 2014). "Innovation Birmingham holds Women in Tech event". Business Live. Retrieved 18 December 2024.
- ↑ Chamberlain, Zoe (4 June 2015). "West Midlands Women of the Year awards short-list announced". Birmingham Mail. Retrieved 18 December 2024.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Wright, Richard (15 March 2022). "Crime novelist relaunches author events at Swanage Library". Swanage News. Retrieved 18 December 2024.
- ↑ Penn, Joanna (21 October 2024). "Scaling An Author Business With Rachel McLean". The Creative Penn. Retrieved 18 December 2024.
- ↑ "REVIEW: Exile by Rachel McCollin". Simon Fairbanks. 20 January 2018. Retrieved 18 December 2024.
- ↑ Ashford, Tom (6 November 2019). "Spotlight 21: Rachel McCollin". Self Publishing Formula. Retrieved 18 December 2024.
- ↑ French, Paul (14 March 2022). "Crime and the City: Birmingham". Crime Reads. Retrieved 18 December 2024.
- ↑ Parish, Chris (17 July 2021). "Book Review: The Corfe Castle Murders by Rachel McLean". Novel Kicks. Retrieved 18 December 2024.
- ↑ Bayley, Sian (24 February 2023). "Digital Bestsellers Lists: McLean takes pole position". The Bookseller. Retrieved 21 December 2024.
- ↑ Tran, Melissa; Zielinski, Mairead. "Shuffling of the Shelves – June Part 2". The Publishing Post. Retrieved 21 December 2024.
- ↑ Rekha (22 November 2019). "Book Review: Murder in the Multiverse by R E McLean". The Book Decoder. Retrieved 21 December 2024.
