![]() He made it very clear that he was only the support act the real star of the evening was Ariana.Īs both Diana Norman and Ariana Franklin, and before her marriage as Diana Narracott, she was very much her own person. I clearly recall the flurry of interest which ran through the crowded shop many people hadn’t connected the face from the television with one of crime fiction’s newer names, and wondered why he was there. Until 2006 she was better known as Diana Norman, the author of well-researched historical novels without the crime element – and perhaps, though unfairly, better still as the wife of journalist, film critic and TV presenter Barry Norman, whose face was the one everyone recognized when they arrived in Cambridge one year to take part in Bodies in the Bookshop, Heffers bookstore’s annual celebration of the crime genre. ![]() ![]() ![]() Historical crime fiction lost a late-flowering gem when Ariana Franklin died in 2011. ![]()
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