Aberystwyth Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2025

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The line-up for this year’s festival in Aberystwyth has now been announced. Speakers include Vaseem Khan, Abir Mukherjee, Mark Billingham, and Elly Griffiths. The festival starts on Friday 25th April at 4 pm with the Dragon Parade to the bandstand. The main programme starts on Saturday 26th. I’ll be helping out with stewarding. On Sunday morning 27th at 9.30 I’ll be discussing “Getting Cosy – Evil Murder, Kindly Sleuths ” with Rod Green and Hannah Hendy. Full details about the festival can be found here. Do come if you can. It’s always lovely to meet readers, so do come and meet me.

Other news is that my next Susan Flynn book is now with my publisher Boldwood, going through the editing process ready for publication on 7 July 2025. It’s called A Halloween Murder and it’s set at Carisbrooke Castle. Look out for the cover reveal. You can pre-order it on amazon (UK) here.

New covers, new titles

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Following the success of A Christmas Murder with its brilliant cover, the first two books in the series featuring Susan Flynn have been re-titled and given stunning new covers to match the third book. So, Death At Castle Cove has been transformed into A Seaside Murder, and Death At St Jude’s has become A Parish Murder. The content is exactly the same, so any reader who already has them shouldn’t buy them again unless they just want the books in sparkling new covers. I hope you love the new looks as much as I do.

A Christmas Murder: My Interview on Vectis Radio

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I was thrilled to be asked back to Vectis Radio here on the Isle of Wight to talk about my latest book, A Christmas Murder. The interview was broadcast live on the Billy and Sue show on Sunday 4 November. It was great fun. Billy had read the book and Sue had listened to the audio version read by Karen Cass. Both were very kind and positive about it. They also provided me with a copy of the audio recording, which you can listen to by clicking below.

Christmas at the Manor: A Cozy Snowstorm Mystery Novel Available Worldwide

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My new novel is published worldwide today and is available in print, audio, and as an ebook. It already has a 5 star rating at amaon uk with the reviwer saying “The story was very well written and kept you page turning, with revelations and other things happening that you were guessing how it would end.I recommend this book.” Pre-publication reviews have said “What’s not to love with a cozy set at Christmas in a snow storm?” and “Lots of secrets and lies in this book, and it was a fantastic read”.

Susan is asked to help out at the newly refurbished manor house hotel to welcome a family party for Christmas. The infamous press mogul Duncan Fern is coming back to the Isle of Wight, the scene of his family’s childhood holidays, to celebrate Christmas with his grown-up children and their partners, his new glamorous wife Kirsten who is forever dripping with diamonds, and the spikey editor of his paper the Morning Flame, Antoine. But when a snowstorm descends over the island, and the following morning a body is found, Christmas at the Manor takes a darker turn. Can Susan get to the bottom of the mystery before the murderer strikes again?

Publication Day

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Today my latest novel Death At St Jude’s is published. As always, it is available worldwide in print, ebook and audiobook (read by Karen Cass). On a very cold January day I recorded a video introducing the book and you can view it here Or you can read more about it on my books page. I am excited about the new book, the second in the series featuring Susan Flynn, and I hope you are too.