Crime writer – novels, radio, TV, to-do lists. Reading junkie. Likes hill-walks, mum dancing, pootling in the garden. She/her. Latest book Running Out of Road.
THE LOST GIRLS OF ST ANN’S only 99p! Manchester, 1960. Three babies born the same night to three young mothers. Relinquished for adoption, will mothers and daughters ever be reunited? Inspired by my own experience of adoption – and growing up in the 60s.
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TOMORROW!! The Fells, my new book and the first Donovan and Young mystery, is out. A missing woman. A cold case. A dark secret, buried deep beneath the Yorkshire Dales. ‘It’s brilliant! Buy it!’ Ann Cleeves
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US 99c tinyurl.com/ynhsmret
Spending an inordinate amount of time making sure none of my characters' names are too similar or start with the same letter. (Just read a great book with two main characters who had four-letter names starting with the same initial and I got so confused).
Hey, USA, my art-monsters-in-Detroit supernatural crime novel about toxic masculinity, malignant creativity, broken places, fractured people trying to put themselves back together and teenagers causing trouble on the Internet is a Kindle deal for $1.99 through 30 April! amzn.to/4cQkFQW
This is a thread of my all-time favourite literal translations, starting with this one…
In Hungarian, the word for a shark, hiszékeny, translates literally to “sea bastard”
I spent one summer holidays scribbling down this book as fast as I could, hoping to capture the emotional journey of adoption and reunion. I’m delighted at how well it’s done on Kindle. Thank you SO MUCH to everyone who bought a copy and to Joffe Books tinyurl.com/yzbmv73u
Ooh! Just had a story accepted by Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine. If you write short crime fiction this is a great place to submit - and if you enjoy reading it they send out regular issues packed with all sorts of crime and mystery tales.
Oh, PLR (Public Lending Right) is brilliant! A massive thank you to all our wonderful libraries and to all you lovely readers. If you’ve not got a library ticket, grab one now. Every time you borrow a book the author and illustrator/narrator get a few pence. Good, eh?
