J.C. Briggs Bio

Jean Briggs taught English for many years in schools in Cheshire, Hong Kong and Lancashire. She now lives in a cottage by a river in Cumbria with a view of the Howgill Fells and a lot of sheep, though it is the streets of London that are mostly in her mind when she is writing about Charles Dickens as a detective.

The idea for Dickens as a private investigator came from re-reading Dickens in 2012 – the two hundredth anniversary of his birth.