J P Rose
Jacqui Rose is a British crime fiction novelist, and as J. P. Rose, a children's author.
Rose was born in Manchester, of Jamaican, Nigerian and Anglo-Irish ancestry. She was adopted as a child, grew up in a Yorkshire village, and trained as an actor, before running prison writing workshops, and then crime fiction.
Rose has written 14 gangland crime thrillers.
She has collaborated with Martina Cole to co-author Loyalty, which was published in 2023.
Writing as J. P. Rose, her first children's book, The Haunting of Tyrese Walker was published by Andersen Press in 2023, and has been shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award.
In 2024, Andersen Press published Birdie, her second book for children. Also in 2024, Rose was a judge for the Jhalak Prize.
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