Sheila Kohler was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, the younger of two girls. Upon matriculation at 17 from Saint Andrews, with a distinction in history (1958), she left the country for Europe. She lived for 15 years in Paris, where she married, did her undergraduate degree in literature at the Sorbonne, and a graduate degree in psychology at the Institut Catholique. After raising her three girls, she moved to the USA in 1981, and did an MFA in writing at Columbia.
Genres: Mystery
Novels
The Perfect Place (1989)
The House on R. Street (1994)
Cracks (1999)
One Girl (1999)
Children of Pithiviers (2001)
Crossways (2004)
Bluebird (2007)
Becoming Jane Eyre (2009)
Love Child (2011)
The Bay of Foxes (2012)
Dreaming for Freud (2014)
Open Secrets (2020)
The House on R. Street (1994)
Cracks (1999)
One Girl (1999)
Children of Pithiviers (2001)
Crossways (2004)
Bluebird (2007)
Becoming Jane Eyre (2009)
Love Child (2011)
The Bay of Foxes (2012)
Dreaming for Freud (2014)
Open Secrets (2020)
Collections
Non fiction show
Sheila Kohler recommends
Book of Knives (2022)
Lise Haines
"In Book of Knives, Lise Haines has created a believable world of terror where nothing is what it seems. Seen through the perceptive eyes of complex characters, a series of vivid scenes unfolds. One finds all one's worst fears echoed here in an increasingly suspenseful and surprising crescendo of events. Wonderfully done."
The Wright Sister (2020)
Patty Dann
"From the first sentence to the last Patty Dann captures the voice of Katharine Wright with uncanny verisimilitude. Poignant."
The Burning Land (2019)
George Alagiah
"A suspenseful and enlightening novel that portrays the extreme violence in the new South Africa with authority, precision of detail, and the kind of insight that makes the different factions and characters caught in the midst of the drama come vividly to life."
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Anthologies containing stories by Sheila Kohler
The Best American Mystery Stories 2020 (2020)
(Best American Mystery Stories)
edited by
C J Box and Otto Penzler
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