“My inspiration tends to come from two words. The two most important words to a writer: What if?”
Welcome
I write mystery novels and short fiction, including the Meredith Island Mysteries.
A question people often ask people who write is How did you know you are a writer? For me, it was as soon as I could pick up a pencil. This is the way I naturally interact with the world: through story and images, symbols and themes, and more often than not, irony. Ursula Le Guin said it best: “But when people say, Did you always want to be a writer?, I have to say no! I always was a writer.”
England is my home by birth, Canada is where I was brought up, and Wales is my spiritual home. I am a lover of singing, history, archaeology, and all things Welsh.
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THE SECOND IN THE MEREDITH ISLAND MYSTERIES
Kate Galway is looking forward to a quiet summer working on her latest novel at her home on Meredith Island. For a place hardly anyone has heard of, her sleepy Welsh island is attracting a lot of visitors, including a conman posing as a psychic and group of archaeology students who believe they’ve unearthed evidence of a Roman temple. Part-way through the dig, however, the students make an even more startling discovery: a body ritualistically laid out in their trench. While intrigued by the murder, amateur sleuth Kate decides to leave this investigation to the professionals. However, when she learns that both the island mechanic and her university friend’s son are prime suspects, she and sidekick Siobhan Fitzgerald feel they have no choice but to get involved.
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49TH SHELF’S MOST ANTICIPATED SPRING BOOKS
A Dark Death made 49th Shelf’s Most Anticipated Spring Fiction Preview: “All the fiction you're going to be falling in love with during the first half of 2025.” 49thShelf.com is an online platform for finding and discussing Canadian books, produced by the Association of Canadian Publishers.
SECRETS IN THE WATER AUDIOBOOK
I'm delighted to announce that the Book Publishers Association of Alberta (BPAA) and the Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB) have selected Secrets in the Water to be recorded as an audiobook. It could take up to a year to be completed, but it will be available through most audiobook sites.
I’ve just auditioned three narrators for the book and chosen my favourite. Although I would prefer to have a British-accented reader, I’m confident the reader I’ve chosen will do a wonderful job, and I think Kate will approve. Siobhan doesn’t care who it was as long as she brings biscuits!
UPCOMING APPEARANCES
FRIDAY, JUNE 27, TIME TBA, THE ARTSY RAVEN PODCAST
I’m talking about A Dark Death during my interview with JD Garrard on The Artsy Raven podcast.
TUESDAY, JULY 22, 6:00 PM, DRUNK FICTION, THE CALEDONIAN, 856 College Street, Toronto
Come to this Scottish pub where I and other writers will be sharing our writing.
SATURDAY, JUNE 28 & SUNDAY, JUNE 29, 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM, MOTIVE MYSTERY & CRIME FESTIVAL, VICTORIA COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO, 73 QUEEN’S PARK CRESCENT
I will be selling and signing books at the Crime Writers of Canada Author Tent. On Sunday, June 29 from 4:00 to 5:00, I will be reading from A Dark Death.
The Beginning
At the age of thirteen, I wrote my first novel about ballet, my obsession at the time.
But I was always drawn to the Agatha Christie traditional mysteries I’d read growing up. The traditional mystery explores the disturbing idea that seemingly ordinary people in idyllic locations are capable of taking the life of another human being.
Given the right circumstances, the retired schoolteacher you pass every morning walking his dog or the young woman who serves tea and cake in your local cafe has the potential to commit murder.