Jean McConnell
Personal Information
Description
Jean McConnell is a prolific writer of plays, television and radio scripts, and short stories. Her stories have appeared in anthologies and magazines worldwide. For television she has written for the BBC (including the popular BBC medical drama Dr Finlay’s Casebook), Granada and channels in the USA and Europe. Jean’s radio plays have been heard on the BBC and in Germany and Zambia. Her plays have been performed in theatres around the UK and internationally. She is a member of the Crime Writers’ Association and a Vice President of the Society of Women Writers and Journalists.
Books
Death is catching
Based on Kilo Forty by Miles Tripp. In this tense, psychological thriller set in a remote part of Egypt, French ex-pats, Hélène and Philippe, are on holiday with their English friend, Foster Smith, and Haik, an Armenian businessman. Foster Smith finds a woman's mutilated body on the beach and, with Hélène apparently missing, the scene is set for a game of bluff and double bluff that will leave two others dead and the hapless Foster Smith the fall guy yet again.
Deckchairs 4
"This is Jean McConnell's fourth volume of Deckchairs plays, each with a cast of two women and requiring only a simple setting. Two are comedies, two dramas, and all display Jean McConnell's keen-eyed view of human nature and of the foibles and fancies of women in particular. In Garden Pests, two keen gardeners meet in a magnificent garden from which neither intends to go home empty-handed. Grannies introduces us to Jenny, reluctantly looking after her teenage daughter's baby, and to Barbara, whose desperate love for her grandchild has led her into a very strange situation. Outdoor Pleasures finds long-suffering Deirdre waiting for an outdoor production of Much Ado About Nothing to start, accompanied by her awkward and far-from-enthusiastic Aunt Tottie. And Remember Me takes place in a corner of a garden at a wedding reception. Elizabeth and Sarah, who shared a flat many years before, meet for the first time in years, and Sarah seizes her chance to let Elizabeth know what she feels about her actions in the past." --Publisher description.