From researching my family history, I know that members of my family lived around Ampleforth, a little village in the hills of North Yorkshire, over a hundred years ago. The first time I visited the area, I felt drawn to it straight away. These days, a few of us cozy mystery writers pack up our […]
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There’s a particular kind of September afternoon that belongs to the English village fair. Bunting strung across the green, a white marquee with its flaps tied back, and trestle tables crowded with Victoria sponges, jam tarts and jars of home-made jam. Somebody’s dog has been entered in the dog show. Somebody else is quietly certain
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Cozy mystery authors (yes, especially me!) love a locked room. A body, a door no one could have opened, and a reader turning pages to find out how it was done. But one of the most baffling locked-room puzzles of the 1920s wasn’t dreamed up by a novelist at all. It happened on a train
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Autumn has well and truly arrived, and with it the perfect excuse to light the fire, put the kettle on and curl up with a good mystery. It’s been a little while since my last Clue List, so this month’s is a bumper edition, with a few summer releases I didn’t want you to miss
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Spring is here, the daffodils are out, and there’s nothing better than settling in with a fresh cup of tea and a brand new mystery. This month’s cozy releases are an absolute treat — from glamorous 1920s whodunnits to Victorian scandals and sun-soaked honeymoon mysteries, there really is something for everyone. And if there’s a
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It’s here — and I couldn’t be more excited to share it with you!! Murder at the Christmas Ball is the eleventh book in the Tommy & Evelyn Christie mystery series, and it’s their most glamorous — and most dangerous — adventure yet. If you love 1920s whodunnits filled with festive atmosphere, family secrets, and
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There’s something deceptively peaceful about an English village cricket match. The white clothing. The polite applause. The sense that nothing truly terrible could happen on a neatly trimmed green, under a mild May sky. And yet, for a mystery writer, that’s precisely what makes a setting like that irresistible. This post contains affiliate links, so
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Long before Hollywood turned into red carpets and billion-dollar premieres, it was still a half-invented place — a dusty industry town surrounded by orange groves, where studios were springing up as fast as the rumours that fed them. The early 1920s were glamorous, yes, but also unstable in a way that feels hard to imagine
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January has well and truly settled in, and with frost on the ground and much of England bracing for hefty snowfalls, it’s officially hibernation season. When the world outside feels cold and wintry, there’s nothing better than staying warm indoors with a comforting new mystery — and this month’s cozy releases are just the thing.
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There’s something undeniably magical about the holidays (or so I’m told — don’t hate me, but I’m not exactly a lover of the Christmas season): the twinkle of fairy lights, the scent of cinnamon-spiced baking in the air, and the soft hush of snow falling outside your window. That said, if your ideal Christmas includes
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