I always intended to be a writer - and to begin 'tomorrow' . Tomorrow took a long time coming and meanwhile I worked as a director in a London publishing firm, editing military, theatrical and other memoirs, together with a fiction list of ghost stories and romances. I learned a lot about the world of writing there, but not much about what it was actually like to be a writer.

Tomorrow did eventually come. I married my American husband James Myers and for some years we had a commuting marriage between Paris, where he then worked, and London, where I did. Crazy, looking back at it, but it seemed a good idea then - particularly as it was there that I dreamed up my first series detective, Auguste Didier, a half French, half English master chef in late Victorian and Edwardian times. Now I’m working with Jim on a crime series featuring Jack Colby, car detective, of which the first, Classic in the Barn, will be published next February. See the Jack Colby page on this site for more information.

I’m currently writing the eighth in a contemporary series about a father and daughter team. Peter and Georgia’s seventh case, Murder on the Old Road, is now on the market. In it, murder takes place on the Pilgrims Way from Winchester to Canterbury, when a Kentish amateur drama group re-enacts a pilgrimage to Becket’s shrine and old legends become frighteningly revived.

In the eighth, Murder in Abbot’s Folly, Peter and Georgia investigate a murder in the grounds of a decaying Georgian house, said to be the setting of a doomed love affair between Jane Austen and a Captain William Harker.

Tom Wasp and the Newgate Knocker, recently published by Five Star Publishing in the US, is the successor to Tom Wasp and the Murdered Stunner published in 2007. Tom Wasp is a chimney sweep in the East End of Victorian London, but together with his young apprentice Ned he manages to get mixed up in murder. When Tom’s friend Eliza Hogg is about to be hung in Newgate prison for the murder of her husband, she gives Tom a pawn ticket, which proves to be for a china statuette of a woman. It looks insignificant, but it is far from that and leads Tom and Ned not only into the toils of the worst criminal gangs in London but into the highest circles of political intrigue. .

As well as novels, I greatly enjoy writing short stories, which appear in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine and in anthologies. A collection of them is published by Crippen & Landru under the title Murder, 'Orrible Murder.

You can also read about my crime writing in my author's profile at the Crime and Mystery Fiction Journal website, www.twbooks.co.uk