I am excited to announce that my latest whodunnit, Death At St Jude’s, is now available for pre-order ahead of its publication on Saturday 10 February 2024. It is the second book featuring Susan Flynn, who first appeared in Death At Castle Cove. She has moved with her cocker spaniels Rocco and Libs from Ventnor to the peaceful village of Bishopstone, where she has joined the choir and started helping in the local school. However, the tranquillity is disrupted when headteacher Lawrence Stone dies falling from the church tower. Once again, Susan finds herself investigating a mysterious death. Who in this small community is capable of murder? The book is getting great reviews from pre-publication readers and I hope you will love it too.

Death At St Jude’s is available as paperback, ebook and audiobook through multiple outlets worldwide. The UK amazon link is here. Or click on US Australia or Canada

I was thrilled to be runner-up in the fiction category of the Isle of Wight Book Awards for my novel “Good Neighbours”. Here I am signing the book with the fiction lead judge Georgina Moore and in the foreground is the certificate. The awards were announced at a splendid lunch held at the Island Sailing Club presided over by Hunter Davies, who set up the awards.

In other news, my next novel, Death at St Jude’s is to be published in February. You can view the cover and pre-order at amazon.co.uk or amazon.com

The Isle of Wight Literary Festival is fast approaching, running from 5 to 8 October. Crime fiction is represented by Elly Griffiths, and I look forward to her Sunday afternoon session with Wendy Joseph KC (a retired Old Bailey judge) and Jackie Malton, a detective who was the inspiration for Jayne Tennison. There’s quite a lot of non-fiction authors, including Chris Mullin launching his latest diaries “Didn’t You used To Be Chris Mullin?” chef Robert Thompson and from BBC radio Justin Webb and Rory Cellan-Jones. The weekend following, I’m off to the one-day Shoreham Wordfest, hosted by Elly Griffiths and William Shaw, and featuring Richard Osman, whose sales figures every crime writer (or even every writer) envies.

I was thrilled to be in Aberystwyth on the weekend of 21-23 April 2023 for the first-ever in person Crime Cymru Festival. There were brilliant writers there and I enjoyed lots of the sessions. They were recorded and can now be viewed online via the festival site for only £2 per session. I was the close-up reader at the session at 9 am on Saturday, reading a 3 minute extract from Death At Castle Cove. The panel discussion which followed was fascinating. Barry Ryan is a television and film producer (recent credits include the Agatha Raisin series on TV). He contributed great insights about how books get chosen to be shown on screen. Bev Jones’ book Wilderness is shortly to be released as a six part series on Amazon Prime starring Jenna Coleman, and she talked about this exciting project. Cathy Ace’s books feature a psychologist, Cait Morgan, in a series of books which are to be produced for the screen by Barry Ryan. If you want to see the session, click here to be taken to the festival page to download the recording.

My introduction to Death At Castle Cove is now available on youtube. Simply click on this link

My latest book, Death At Castle Cove, is published by Boldwood on 8 March. It is available at amazon and other online retailers as an ebook, paperback and audiobook (read by Deryn Edwards). Find out more on the books page, or click here to be taken to its amazon page. You can also see my video introduction to the book from the key locations on my author page here (except USA). I hope you will read it and enjoy it.