by jenna | Aug 14, 2023 | Uncategorized
The Widows’ Wine Club ‘I don’t want to be a dried-up old widow woman!’ I remember sobbing in my husband’s arms. ‘You won’t be, my darling.’ Peter was certain there had been ‘a god-awful cock-up’ – to quote – and we would hear in the morning that the consultant had...
by jenna | Jul 31, 2023 | Uncategorized
Why Siena? Book number four in the Armstrong and Oscar mystery series Is set in the beautiful Tuscan city of Siena. For many years back in the Middle Ages, Siena was more important and wealthier than its neighbour Florence, until the arrival of the Black Death in...
by jenna | Jul 28, 2023 | Uncategorized
When I dreamed up St Bride’s School, the setting for my Gemma Lamb Cozy Mystery series, I was drawing not only on my experience of working at a girls’ boarding school, but also on my love of the various boarding school stories I read as a child. While my Gemma Lamb...
by jenna | Jul 28, 2023 | Uncategorized
In each episode in my cozy mystery series, I add new characters and settings to old favourites from previous books. In my latest novel, Artful Antics at St Bride’s, the school acquires a secretive new pupil, Frieda Ehrlich. Her school fees are sponsored by enigmatic...
by jenna | Jul 28, 2023 | Uncategorized
Beatrix Potter was born 157 years ago today on 28 h July 1866 and lived to the age of 77 (22nd December 1943). I bet she never imagined that, 121 years after her first book, The Tale of Peter Rabbit was published commercially and eighty years after her death, her...
