For writers and readers of mystery

“The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.”

G K Chesterton

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J C Briggs taught English for many years in schools in Cheshire, Hong Kong and Lancashire.
She now writes historical mysteries featuring as her detective the great Victorian novelist, Charles Dickens. All the books are based on something which really happened in Dickens’s life. Her first book was The Murder of Patience Brooke which was published in 2014.
There are now 8 books in the series. Jean now lives in a cottage in Cumbria with her husband who is an artist.
When she is not reading Dickens or writing Dickens, she gives talks about him and other
Victorian novelists and enjoys her garden in the Yorkshire Dales.

https://jcbriggsbooks.com

 

 

Alan Veale was born in 1952 in Manchester. Encouraged by his sister, who was a great reader, and following his parents’ habit of listening to the radio, Alan found an interest in writing and wrote short pieces that made his friends laugh. His subsequent passion for the theatre led him to take a more serious interest in character development and plot construction.  For many years he concentrated almost entirely on theatre scripts – some specifically for performance, others for writing competitions. It was not until 2010, a year after enforced early retirement from the civil service, that he considered taking on the BIG challenge: to write a novel.
The eventual result was The Murder Tree, first published in October 2013. Just over four years later he released a more personal story onto the public A Kangaroo In My Sideboard. This was about his parents and their experience of emigrating in 1949. Now he has returned to fiction, and to the mystery surrounding the sinking of the Titanic.

https:/www.alanveale.com

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