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GUEST POST FROM JO Crime pays, so they say. And, to a large extent where books are concerned, this is true. My crime novels far outsell my women’s fiction novels. So, having turned to a life of crime (fiction) in 2021, why am I still writing women’s fiction? That’s a good question! Crime and detective fiction are undoubtedly my first loves. From the moment I opened Richard Scarry’s The Great Pie Robbery at a very young age, I was hooked, and my reading taste has never really changed. At fifty-seven, you’ll still see me picking up the latest Robert Galbraith…
View PostTHE MANTUARY BY JULIE WASSMER – BOOK REVIEW
Published by The Conrad Press on the 13th of November 2024 Julie Wassmer is a UK TV drama writer who wrote the BBC series EastEnders for almost twenty years before becoming the author of the popular Whitstable Pearl Mystery crime novels—now a major new TV series starring Kerry Godliman, Howard Charles, and Frances Barber. Her debut novel, The Whitstable Pearl Mystery, followed in 2015, published by the award-winning Little, Brown Book Group. Nine books in the Whitstable Pearl Mystery series have since followed, including Murder at the Allotment, published in May 2024. The third season of the TV series Whitstable…
View PostFOLKESTONE BOOK FESTIVAL 2024
I went to an author event at the book festival last week as it was an introduction to some of our local authors, I thought I knew most of them but I was super surprised to see the line up and only knew three of them! Where have they been hiding, I made contact with most of them and waiting to hear from them about their writing journey and books. I will then do a series of posts about each author, I am excited to get to know them. It was lovely to catch up with Paul Robinson…
View PostMURDER AT THE ALLOTMENT BY JULIE WASSMER – BOOK REVIEW
Published by Constable, May 2024 I have been waiting for ages for this book to be released as I was so looking forward to it. Julie is one of my favourite authors plus we get to see the series on television as well. We now have ten books set in Whitstable all about Pearl Nolan and her detective agency plus her romance with the Canterbury detective. What a good pair they make as they go about solving crimes from missing dustbins to murder, must be all those DFLs (down from London) causing all this mayhem in the coastal town of…
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