When I’m not medalling in other people’s crimes, I like to relax on my island off the coast of Kent. I have a large family and several rescue animals. My most faithful companion, however, is Jack Russell, who rarely leaves my side.

I have written 10 books so far with more to come. I write in partnership with USA Today Bestselling author Steve Higgs, who provides the framework for my stories. I couldn’t do it without him!

What I like: I have always enjoyed all things sweet and cosy with a slight edge and buckets of humour. As a child, when all my contemporaries were reading Stephen King and Jackie Collins, I was curling up on the settee under my tartan bedspread with Miss Marple and Father Brown. Quite the mix, but I can’t trace back my writing influences to these late night reading sessions. School taught me to love Dickens. Again, all about the people and noticing the tiny habits, behaviours and motivations that drive us all on our journeys through life. I love quirky characters living ordinary lives, full of course, read truckloads of cosy mysteries, but I adore the classics, particularly Austen and Hardy. I watch just about any murder mystery series on television, especially those with a quirky, humorous edge like Midsomer Murders. Modern favourites include so many to list, especially the Agnes Rutter books.

I write: I have been writing seriously for around six years. Back in 2019, I met Steve Higgs at a 20Books conference in Edinburgh, only to discover that this cosy and paranormal mystery legend lived just a few miles away from me. That was where the magic began. In 2022, Steve invited me to his new publishing house, Greenfield Press, and the rest, as they say, is history.

The first fruits of this union were the Isle of Wesberrey books. I imagine for many of you that’s how you’ve found this website. I hope you love Reverend Jessamy Ward and her crazy friends and family as much as I do.

Top Secret Mission: I am currently working on another series with Steve Higgs based on a spin-off character from his wonderful Patricia Fisher books. Though I may share Steve’s love of mystery, I don’t share his incredible ability to write at the speed of light, so please be patient as we work on it quietly. I will share Exploration groups will be the first to know. If you are a fan of Patricia Fisher and Rev Jess Ward, I think you will love these too, so watch this space…