About Lindsay Jacob
I was born in East Anglia (UK), where my joy of history began. I have always been fascinated that the remnants of distant past lives can be discovered beneath our feet. Their former owners prodding at our toes as we walk over their bones; catching our attention; smiling as we pick up their long-lost belongings or saddened when we discover evidence of their brutal deaths.
I attended the Cambridge Grammar School for Boys, before travelling and settling in Australia, where I attended Sydney University. I am a frequent visitor to the UK. Early in my career, I became private secretary to a minister in the Australian Government, and I started putting imaginative thinking into the written word in earnest. I continued writing for senior figures and opinion leaders until retiring recently. Speech writing earned me a reputation as a creative thinker and writer, teaching me skills for fiction writing, including putting myself in the shoes of my characters and readers. While my career involved imagining the future, my dream was always to give life to the past. My understanding of Anglo-Saxon history is recognized as intelligent and thorough.
I have written three murder mysteries set in the mysterious fen country of the Kingdom of the East Angles in the 830s – ‘Murder at Elmstow Minster’, ‘The Fenland Spell’ and ‘The Last Days’. ‘The Fenland Spell’, as well as ‘The Last Days’, was awarded the B.R.A.G. (Book Readers Appreciation Group) Medallion. I have ideas for another three stories, at least, in this series.