Helen Cadbury (1965-2017) was a British crime fiction author, poet and playwright, whose debut novel To Catch a Rabbit won the Northern Crime Award, was an Amazon Rising Star, and was chosen as one of the Yorkshire Post’s "top novels since the millennium to reflect the region". It was the first in an ongoing series featuring PCSO Sean Denton, which has been optioned for TV by Red Planet Pictures, producers of Death in Paradise.
Helen was born in the Midlands, grew up in Saddleworth, near Oldham, and spent the last 15 years of her life in York. When she was a child she wanted to be an actor, a writer, or an ice cream man’s assistant – with two out of three achieved, she said in May 2017: 'I’m still looking for an opening in the ice cream trade.' Valley Press published the first collection of her poetry Forever, Now in November 2017.
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