Her first novels were historicalromances published under the nom de plumeAnn Hulme. After her return to England, her first crime novel, Say It With Poison, was published in 1991.
Granger took a Modern Languages degree at the University of London, taught English for a year in France, but eventually went to work in the visa sections of British consulates and embassies in Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and Austria.
Her first novels were historicalromances published under the nom de plume Ann Hulme.