Clive Leo McNeir is a British linguist, lexicographer, and author of a series of crime novels. As a director of The European Language Initiative, he compiled and edited 12 dictionaries in 15 languages, the first one being published by Cassell in 1993.
Education
McNeir received a bachelor's degree in French and German from the Queen Mary University of London, where he studied from 1963 to 1967.
Personal life He and his wife, cookery writer Cassandra, live in a 300-year-old cottage in rural Northamptonshire.
Bibliography
Dictionaries and reference works Cassell Multilingual Dictionary of Local Government and Business: The European Language Initiative Geiriadur Terminoleg Trefniadaeth: Dictionary of Procedural Terms (1999) Thesaurus of the Gaelic Language (2011)
Crime novels Marnie Walker Series Getaway with murder (2000) Death in Little Venice (2001) Kiss and Tell (2003) Devil in the Detail (2004) No Secrets (2006) Sally Ann's Summer (2007) Smoke and Mirrors (2009) Gifthorse (2011) Stick in the Mud (2012) Smoke Without Fire (2015) Witching hour (2017) To Have and to Hold (2019) Beyond the Grave (2021) Ivory Tower (2023)
References
External links Bloomsbury Book's author bio Author's official site