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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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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