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Sarah Dunnakey
Sub-genre: Amateur detective, Cosy, Historical, mystery
Sarah Dunnakey is a writer of long and short fiction. She is a winner of a Northern Writer’s Award for Fiction and the New Writing North Arvon Award. She has had short stories published in anthologies and broadcast on Radio 4
Her debut novel The Companion – a murder mystery set in the 1930s and modern day West Yorkshire was published by Orion in 2017.
In November 2024 Avon published Sarah’s The Twelve Murders of Christmas. Twelve murderous stories, 20 fiendish puzzles and one final mystery to solve.
When she’s not writing fiction Sarah writes and verifies questions for several TV quiz shows including Mastermind, University Challenge, Pointless and The Weakest Link.
Originally from North Yorkshire and Teeside, Sarah now lives in West Yorkshire.
Other Awards
2017 New Writing North: Northern Writers Award for Fiction
2019 New Writing North: Arvon Award
Books by Sarah Dunnakey
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The Twelve Murders of Christmas 
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