by jenna | Apr 17, 2026 | Uncategorized
This year Boldwood will begin publishing my four-book series featuring Joe Clayton, a former undercover cop with a price on his head. The character of Joe was inspired by a real person. Years ago I had some friends who were getting married after twenty years together....
by jenna | Apr 17, 2026 | Uncategorized
From the Yorkshire Wolds to the Hollywood Hills Being an author means I spend an awful lot of time in my writing shed on my own. I was therefore thrilled when I was invited to do a talk to a local women’s group about my books and the inspiration behind them. I called...
by jenna | Apr 15, 2026 | Uncategorized
The inspiration for The Last Witness! I was a 23-year-old rookie reporter when I unwittingly found myself covering a major court trial, one that would go on to make front page news in the city where I worked, as well as hitting the headlines nationally too. As I...
by jenna | Apr 10, 2026 | Uncategorized
Here is a list of five of the best books I read and one film I watched when researching Operation Berlin, my detective novel set in Berlin in 1930. By ‘best’, I mean most useful, or most entertaining, or both. The High Sheriff by Henry Wade (1937) One of my two...
by jenna | Mar 27, 2026 | Uncategorized
All in the name of research, I climbed to the top of Big Ben (334 steps to the belfry – don’t look down the stairwell if you’re afraid of heights!), toured the Palace of Westminster, and squeezed into the broom cupboard where suffragette Emily Davison once hid....
