Before she began writing, Cody worked mostly in the visual arts, including as a graphic designer, but she also made furniture and was employed by Madame Tussaud's waxwork museum as a hair inserter and colouring artiste.
Her Anna Lee series introduced the professional female private detective to mystery fiction.
[citation needed] The entire Anna Lee series was loosely adapted for television and broadcast in both the U.K. and the U.S.[2] Cody is also the author of the Bucket Nut Trilogy, featuring professional wrestler Eva Wylie, as well as the stand-alone novels Rift, Gimme More, Ballad of a Dead Nobody, Miss Terry, and Gift or Theft.
Miss Terry is a thriller dealing with issues about the children of immigrant families in modern Britain.
[4] She is also a founder member of a small NGO in the Busiiro region of Uganda whose mission is to keep young girls in education instead of early marriage or prostitution.