Behind the Book: Murder at the Beauty Pageant

Murder at the Beauty Pageant is book 12 in the best-selling Miss Underhay series. Set in 1930’s Devon, England the mysteries have a golden age feel, and are based in the area around Greenaway, Agatha Christie’s home. All of the books can be read as standalones,...

Zombies Are Not Funny

A number of years ago – never mind what number – my editor asked me if I’d like to start another series, something else that would have a paranormal bent to it. But it shouldn’t just involve regular walking-around people. She has one unbreakable caveat, however: “NO ZOMBIES!”

Behind the Book: The Coming Darkness

My first inspiration for THE COMING DARKNESS came from memories of being an interpreter and translator in the 1980s, a distant era before the cult of economic growth had properly begun mincing the natural world to a fine grey powder of disappointment.

Behind the Book: The Binding Room

It’s always assumed that I base my novels on specific cases that I’ve worked on but the truth is that I’m more of a magpie, picking up an interesting fact of a case or a particular personality trait of a client and building my story from there.