“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.
OTHER NEWS
SECRETS IN THE WATER AUDIOBOOK UPDATE
GREAT NEWS: The audiobook has been recorded, and my publisher is in the process of uploading it. That means it will shortly be available to buy and hopefully will be available in libraries. I will let you know the details when everything is in place.
EVEN GREATER NEWS: The audiobook is now available in the Toronto Public Library, the Mississauga Public Library, and other libraries across Canada including Winnipeg and Edmonton. If you love audiobooks and your library system doesn’t have it, you can request that they add it to their catalogue.
ALBERTA READERS CAN’T GET ENOUGH OF A DARK DEATH
READ ALBERTA’S TOP TEN E-BOOKS BORROWED FROM LIBRARIES
A Dark Death has been on Read Alberta’s list for September, October, and November. That's three months in a row. I must be doing something right. Thank you, Alberta readers.
MORE ACCOLADES FOR A DARK DEATH
So honoured that A Dark Death is on 49th Shelf’s Top Fiction of 2025 list. Go to their website to enter to win a copy of the book.
UPCOMING APPEARANCES
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 7:00 — 9:00 PM, PHYLUM PRESS READING SERIES, NIAGARA ARTISTS CENTRE, 353 ST. PAUL STREET, ST. CATHARINES
Folks in the Hamilton and Niagara area—come and hear me read with Aviva Rubin and Lisa de Nikolits.
SUNDAY, MAY 3, 6:30 PM, JUNCTION READS, TYPE BOOKS, 883 QUEEN STREET WEST, TORONTO
Details TBA.
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.