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News: Cover Reveal for 'The Willow March Murder'

12/12/2019

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Book Cover:
The Willow Marsh Murder

I'm delighted to reveal the amazing book cover for The Willow Marsh Murder, the sixth Detective Lavender Mystery. The Willow Marsh Murder, is due to be published on 1st February 2020 and is now available to pre-order on Amazon.  Simply follow this link or click on the image below.
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Once again, I'm in awe at the imagination and skill of my designer, Lisa Horton. I'm particularly impressed with how she took a stock photo we bought from Alamy of the Great Ouse River near Brandon Creek (a remote area which sees a lot of dramatic action in the novel) and turned it into the background for the book cover.

Of course, Ely Cathedral isn't really in that spot but we all have to suspend our imagination a bit now and then.

I hope you like the finished product as much as I do. 
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News: Cover Reveal for 'The Death of Irish Nell'

8/11/2019

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Revealed: The book Cover For
'The Death of Irish Nell'

TA-RAH!!!
And finally...we have a book cover for The Death of Irish Nell (to be published on 1st December).
I thought grey would be a great contrast to the vivid colours I normally use and I think my cover designer, Lisa Horton, has once again done a super job.
Now you can see what it looks like, if you fancy pre-ordering The Death of Irish Nell at the reduced price of £1.199/$1.99 the link is HERE.
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News: Two New Lavender Mysteries

6/10/2019

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TWO BRAND NEW LAVENDER MYSTERIES TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE NEXT SIX MONTHS!

There are exciting times ahead! 

I'm delighted to announce there will be TWO brand new Detective Lavender Mysteries published in the next six months: The Death of Irish Nell (a short story) and The Willow Marsh Murder (a full-length novel).

The Death of Irish Nell is due out on December 1st, 2019. The book cover is still being designed by the brilliant Lisa Horton (who's created all my lovely book covers) but it should be here soon. Meanwhile, the eBook of is already available to pre-order at the reduced price of $1.99 / £1.99.
 
The Death of Irish Nell is the prequel to my new full-length novel, The Willow Marsh Murder, which is due out in February. The Death of Irish Nell is a taster which has been especially written to whet my readers' appetites while we all wait for the publication of The Willow Marsh Murder. The short story features an early case of Lavender's, which he worked on with Woods at the start of his career as a Principal Officer. The decisions Lavender made back then have a profound effect on both of them ten years later when they're summoned to solve another murder at Willow Marsh Manor in Cambridgeshire.
Here's the blurb and a link to pre-order The Death of Irish Nell. 
Pre-order
The Death of Irish Nell 
Here
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News: 50K Sales for 'Plague Pits & River Bones'

28/3/2019

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Plague Pits & River Bones
​Reaches fifty thousand readers

My publishers have just told me that Plague Pits & River Bones (Book #4) has now surpassed fifty thousand sales. 
I feel humbled and incredibly proud that so many people are buying and enjoying my Detective Lavender novels.
Thank you for your support.
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News: 'Murder in Park Lane' Published

13/2/2019

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Fifth Detective Lavender Mystery
An Instant Best-Seller

Murder in Park Lane, the fifth novel in The Detective Lavender Mystery Series, was published on February 12th 2019 and within 24 hours it was already in the Top 200 on Amazon.com - and had  a Best-Seller tag.
At the time of typing, it is the best-selling novel in Historical Thrillers.
​Go, Lavender!
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News: Cover Reveal

1/11/2018

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Murder In Park Lane

I'm delighted to reveal the wonderful new book cover for Murder in Park Lane, the fifth novel in The Detective Lavender Mystery Series, which will be published on February 12th 2019.
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News: 'The Sans Pareil Mystery' reaches 100,000 sales

30/6/2018

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Sales Milestone for The Second Book In The Lavender Series

I received a lovely surprise in the post today from my publishers - a plaque marking 100,000 sales of my second book in the Detective Lavender Series, The Sans Pareil Mystery. 
I've now got a matching pair on the wall in the study.
The same plaque for The Heiress of Linn Hagh arrived two years ago.
​I'm a very happy little author today.
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News: New Book Covers

1/4/2018

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New Book Covers

My debut novel Catching the Eagle and it's prequel, February 1809, have both had a makeover.
Two hundred years after his death, our family rogue, Jamie Charlton, has never looked so good.
Many thanks to my talented cover designer, Lisa Horton for these brilliant image. Lisa designs the book covers for the Detective Lavender Mystery Series (published by Thomas & Mercer) and I have asked her to upgrade the covers of all my self-published novels.
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News: Researching in Ely

16/10/2017

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Researching Lavender Book #5

The summer is over, the academic year has started again and I've gone back to work. 
I've recently spent four days researching for the fifth Detective Lavender Mystery in the tiny cathedral town of Ely in the watery fenland of Cambridgeshire.
Armed with a notebook and my phone camera, I've pounded the city streets; visited three museums and a nature reserve and taken two boat trips through the rural countryside.
I take photos of anything and everything which I think may come in useful from rush matting on the floor of ancient cottages to information plaques about the flora and fauna. My quest was to get 'a feel' for life in this remote and harsh area in the early part of the nineteenth century. I wanted to know about the social history of the people and their lifestyle. No detail was too small to note, whether it was the diseases that plagued them, how they survived the winter or how their gaols/jails were run.
Anyway, here are a few of the photos that will inspire my writing over the next few months. Enjoy.
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News: Publication date for 'Plague Pits & River Bones'

27/8/2017

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D-Day: 11th January 2018

That's the date,folks.
On the 11th January 2018, Thomas & Mercer will publish the fourth novel in The Detective Lavender Mystery Series:
​Plague Pits & RIver Bones. 
It's already up for pre-order on Amazon with its lovely new book cover and racy blurb and this happy, little author is doing an excited dance around the kitchen.
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London 1812: Savage gangs intent on treachery and revolt besiege the capital, while a brooding menace stalks the corridors of the Palace of Westminster. When Detective Stephen Lavender is called in to investigate a highway robbery and a cold-blooded murder, both the cases take a dangerous and disturbing personal twist.
Meanwhile, Lavender’s trusted deputy, Constable Ned Woods, finds a mysterious, severed foot washed up on Greenwich Beach. They soon realise that these ancient bones are more sinister than they first appeared.
With Bow Street Police Office undermanned and in disarray, it will take all of Lavender and Woods’ wit and skill, with help from Lavender’s spirited wife, Magdalena, to unmask the fiend behind the mayhem; restore peace and justice to the beleaguered city and solve the tragic mystery of the severed foot.
But will they do so in time to foil a plot that threatens to plunge the country into chaos?
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