Kinn Hamilton McIntosh,[1] MBE (20 June 1930 – 21 December 2024), known professionally as Catherine Aird, was an English novelist.
Her witty, literate, and deftly plotted novels straddle the "cozy" and "police procedural" genres and are somewhat similar in flavour to those of Martha Grimes, Caroline Graham, M. C. Beaton, Margaret Yorke, and Pauline Bell.
Aird was inducted into the prestigious Detection Club in 1981, and is a recipient of the 2015 Cartier Diamond Dagger award.
[2] She also wrote and edited a series of village histories, and was an editor and contributing author on works regarding other writers and the art of writing.
She lived since the war in Sturry, a village in East Kent, where for many years she took an active interest in local affairs.