Anna Dean, the pseudonym for writer Marian Veevers (born 1956), is the listed author of the Dido Kent series of mystery novels.
Marian Veevers was born in Cumberland (now part of Cumbria) in England in 1956.
By the time I realised my mistake and understood that it was not actually compulsory to create stories - the habit was too deeply ingrained to give up.”[2]Veevers has an MA in Creative Writing.
Veevers adopted the pen name “Anna Dean” for the Dido Kent series of historical crime novels set in the Regency period – the time of Jane Austen.
[3] Under her ‘real name’, Veevers has published an historical novel, ‘Bloodlines’ in 1996[3][4] and has also written short stories and monologues for BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio Cumbria.