I first knew about Jill Paton Walsh through her children's books, especially A Parcel of Patterns, which is about the village of Eyam that sealed itself off to stop the spread of the plague (quite a topical subject now). Another I enjoyed was Fireweed, set during the Second World War.
She also wrote detective novels with the main character of Imogen Quy, so she had experience in the detective fiction genre when she came to continue the Lord Peter Wimsey series of novels, from the notes that Dorothy L Sayers had left. Opinion in Sayers fandom is divided on these, but I enjoyed them, even if some people do see them as a form of fan fiction.
She was 83.
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