Happy New Year!

Thank you for all your friendship and support in 2025! Wishing you all a wonderful, happy and healthy 2026!

Merry Christmas!

Wishing all my readers a happy, healthy Christmas. Thank you for all of your support to me and to my wonderful guest bloggers this year. I wish you all a healthy and peaceful New Year with great books to read, joyful times to come and good company to share them with.

Christmas guest blogger - Verity Bright

A warm welcome to my lovely writer colleague, Verity Bright! Here to talk about Murder on a Frosty Night! Wrapping presents and singing at midnight mass on a frosty night… Lady Swift is determined to enjoy Christmas at home this year, until another body turns up! Winter 1925. Eleanor and Hugh are decking the halls for their first married Christmas together when butler Clifford arrives with a mysterious telegram. A lucrative case awaits their new detective agency… but in the most remote county in England. The note insists they must be there by midnight to accept the job. After a snowy journey, they arrive at the tiny hamlet of Yorelow to find their client, Osmund Unwin, dead in the churchyard as midnight mass ends. They realise they are now in the absurd situation of having to solve the murder of their client – who they never met – to solve a case they know nothing about and officially never accepted! Sounds frosty fabulous brr... Get your copy HERE

Murder at Midwinter Farm is out today!

Murder at Midwinter Farm releases today! A festive murder mystery outing for Kitty and Matt. A frosty country lane, snow-dusted Devon hills as far as the eye can see… and a local farmer vanished without trace. Can Kitty Underhay solve this chilling mystery? Devon, 1937. Kitty Underhay is enjoying a crisp winter morning walk with her best friend, Alice, and her fiancé, Robert, who have recently bought the mysterious Midwinter Farm. The previous owner vanished one night, his dinner still on the table and the front door left wide open. But as work is carried out on the farm, a body is found in the grounds. How was the man murdered—and who is responsible? Robert trusts the local police even less than Kitty does, so she is immediately on the case, with her husband Matt by her side. As the pair take the bull by the horns and begin to gather clues, several suspects emerge. Though he seems gentle as a lamb, is the victim’s son as innocent as he appears? Why does the local pub landlord have an axe to grind, and does his daughter seem suspicious? The waters become muddied by a robbery, with valuable jewels stolen at neighbouring Seacliffe Hall. Is the thief also the murderer Kitty is looking for? Or are the two crimes entirely unconnected? With the weak winter sun setting over the fields and danger mounting fast, Kitty and Matt need to find the killer, before they meet their own icy end in the dead of winter… Fans of Agatha Christie, T.E. Kinsey or Verity Bright will adore this totally charming murder mystery. The perfect treat for cozy crime fans!

Out in kindle, audio, paperback or read on KU HERE This story is set close to my home and features some of the loveliest places in this part of Devon. I hope you'll all enjoy it!

Release day and an anniversary!

Yesterday was the release day for Murder Most British, the third in my Secret Detective Agency series.HERE A release day is a cause for celebration on its own but for me it was extra special. It was also 7 years since I retired from nursing to fulfil a life long dream of becoming a fulltime author. It was scary, I was leaving a lifetime in my profession to start something new. I had enough money to last me for the nex three months and a small pension in case I failed. It was a new writing name too and a new genre. A new publisher, agent and editor. I did a marketing course to gain my level 2 certificate since I had no clue what I was doing in the brave new fast paced social media world. I also thought that if it all went wrong I would have a qualification to prove an old dog can learn new tricks. Since then it's been a crazy ride. There was covid and the world shut down. I lost both my parents and had to deal with months of estate care and worry. We moved house from the Black Country to Devon to a house that needed work. We took my mother in law with us since she needed care so we sold two houses. 3 months in our new home and storms bought down the gable end of the house so we had to evacuate while it was all rebuilt. My middle daughter got married and I became a grandmother - twice. My eldest daughter got engaged. I had surgery again. I wrote twenty-eight books in two series to date. Translated into six languages, best sellers in the UK, USA, Canada, Australia and Germany. I've been on panels, attended festivals, done things that scared me half to death! Seeing Murder Most British release was a true celebration and also a thanks to everyone who has been on this journey with me. My family, especially my husband, we celebrated our 40th wedding anniversary this year. My children and their lovely partners and families. My friends who have been by my side through it all, many of them for most of my life. My new friends here in Devon, my wonderful supportive fellow authors. My agent, Kate, who has been my staunchest supporter for years. My incredible publisher, Bookouture and my editors, Emily, Maisie and Cerys, all of team Kitty who are now also team Jane. And a special heartfelt thank you to my readers, for buying the books, reading them, requsting them at your libraries, sending me lovely notes, leaving wonderful reviews. It keeps me going when things aren't easy.Thank you, all of you and for celebrating Murder most British with me!

Cover Reveal - The Afternoon Tea Murders

Cover reveal today for book 4 in The Secret Detective Agency Series -The Afternoon Tea Murders! Now available for preorder. HERE

Almost November

November is racing towards us now bringing not one but two releases from me. Murder most British is out November 6th and Murder at Midwinter Farm on November 24th!

I'm thrilled to say both books are getting wonderful reviews on Netgalley and The Afternoon Tea Murders has just been accepted for publication in early 2026!!!!!! yay! This is the fourth in the Secret Detective Agency Series. I have ad a sneak preview of the cover and it looks fabulous! So look out for more announcements soon!