Amelia Ellis
Encyclopedia
Amelia Ellis is a British-German novelist and photographer best known for her mystery series featuring London private investigator Nea Fox.
Her themes include guilt and redemption, integrity, courage and sacrifice, but also friendship, love and various aspects of lesbian
relationships. Urban loneliness is another major subject of her books.
Ellis' protagonist is a pensive but tough post-feminist woman in her early thirties searching for answers to life's persistent questions, often finding them in the course of her investigations.
Her novels contain elements of hardboiled
fiction, cozies and classic detective stories and cannot easily be assigned to a specific genre of mysteries
.
As a photographer, Ellis works primarily in the field of street photography
. She is best known for her black and white pictures of London. Ellis is taking part in the London-based art project Camden17.
Her themes include guilt and redemption, integrity, courage and sacrifice, but also friendship, love and various aspects of lesbian
Lesbian
Lesbian is a term most widely used in the English language to describe sexual and romantic desire between females. The word may be used as a noun, to refer to women who identify themselves or who are characterized by others as having the primary attribute of female homosexuality, or as an...
relationships. Urban loneliness is another major subject of her books.
Ellis' protagonist is a pensive but tough post-feminist woman in her early thirties searching for answers to life's persistent questions, often finding them in the course of her investigations.
Her novels contain elements of hardboiled
Hardboiled
Hardboiled crime fiction is a literary style, most commonly associated with detective stories, distinguished by the unsentimental portrayal of violence and sex. The style was pioneered by Carroll John Daly in the mid-1920s, popularized by Dashiell Hammett over the course of the decade, and refined...
fiction, cozies and classic detective stories and cannot easily be assigned to a specific genre of mysteries
Mystery fiction
Mystery fiction is a loosely-defined term.1.It is often used as a synonym for detective fiction or crime fiction— in other words a novel or short story in which a detective investigates and solves a crime mystery. Sometimes mystery books are nonfiction...
.
As a photographer, Ellis works primarily in the field of street photography
Street photography
Street photography is a type of documentary photography that features subjects in candid situations within public places such as streets, parks, beaches, malls, political conventions and other settings....
. She is best known for her black and white pictures of London. Ellis is taking part in the London-based art project Camden17.
Work
Nea Fox Series- The Lion's Circle (2005)
- Lilies on Sand (2006)
- The 4th Aspect (2008)
- The Pearl Dragon (2010)