Kate Ross

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  • Bibliography:
    4 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1993
  • Latest Book:
    September 1997
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Katherine Jean "Kate" Ross (June 21, 1956 – March 12, 1998) was a graduate of Wellesley College and the Yale law school, and was a trial lawyer for the Boston law firm of Sullivan & Worcester. She was an American mystery author who wrote four books set in Regency-era England about the dandy Julian Kestrel. She died of cancer in 1998, she was 42.

The novels in the series are...
Cut to the Quick (1994), which won the 1994 Gargoyle award for in the category of Best Historical Mystery.
A Broken Vessel (1995)
Whom the Gods Love (1996) and
The Devil in Music (1997), which won the 1997 Agatha Award for in the category of Best Novel.
The Lullaby Cheat (1997), a short story featuring Kestrel, is included in the mystery anthology Crime Through Time, edited by Miriam Grace Monfredo and Sharan Newman.
Her short story, "The Unkindest Cut", was published in the 1998 anthology Past Poisons: An Ellis Peters Memorial Anthology of Historical Crime.

Full Series List in Order

A Julian Kestrel Mystery

1 - Cut to the Quick (1993)
2 - A Broken Vessel (1994)
3 - Whom the Gods Love (Jun-1995)
4 - The Devil in Music (Sep-1997)

Book List in Order: 4 titles

  • Cut to the Quick

    • / Historical Mystery
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    A Julian Kestrel Mystery - 1

    THERE'S A BEAUTIFUL YOUNG WOMAN IN JULIAN KESTREL'S BED. UNFORTUNATELY, SHE'S DEAD. Add the unflappable Julian Kestrel to the ranks of great sleuths of ages past. He's the very model of a proper Beau Brummell--except for his unusual willingness to...

  • A Broken Vessel

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    A Julian Kestrel Mystery - 2

    JULIAN KESTREL STALKS A DIABOLICAL KILLER THROUGH HIGH AND LOW LIFE IN REGENCY LONDON London's notorious Haymarket district, Sally Stokes, a bold and bewitching Cockney prostitute, picks up three men one after the other and nicknames them Bristles...

  • Whom the Gods Love

    A Julian Kestrel Mystery - 3

    JULIAN KESTREL UNMASKS A HIGH-SOCIETY KILLER Alexander Falkland hasn't an enemy in the world. Young, talented, and charming, he shines in every field he enters: law, architecture, the investment market. But one night his luck runs out with a venge...

  • The Devil in Music

    A Julian Kestrel Mystery - 4

    The venerated maestro of historical mystery, Kate Ross, returns with her Regency dandy and amateur sleuth, Julian Kestrel, for a fourth mystery this tame far from London, in the sensuous, murderous Italy of the 1820s Four years ago, the Italian Lo...



Award-Winning Books by Kate Ross

The Devil in Music
1997 Agatha Award -- Novel


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Kate Ross has published 4 books.

Kate Ross does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Devil in Music, was published in September 1997.

The first book by Kate Ross, Cut to the Quick, was published in January 1993.

Yes. Kate Ross has 1 series.
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