by Nia Beynon | Aug 21, 2023 | Uncategorized
September 1915 and the country is in the second year of a war. Hannah Merrill helps run her Aunt Violet’s bookshop in Covent Garden and one morning, rumours of an air raid the night before make her worry for the state of the bookshop. She finds the building unharmed,...
by Nia Beynon | Aug 14, 2023 | Uncategorized
Grace Murphy is a dedicated midwife and a loyal friend. She lives in nurses’ accommodation with her two friends, all three of them far away from their homes in Ireland. A level-headed, serious-minded girl with a kind and generous heart she is a calming influence on...
by Nia Beynon | Aug 10, 2023 | Uncategorized
The inspiration for writing ‘The Midwives’ War’ came to me in a rather unexpected way. I was rooting in a box of family memorabilia when I came across my father’s Royal Air Force Service and Release Book. In WW2 he served as a leading aircraftsman, much of his time...
by Nia Beynon | Aug 10, 2023 | Uncategorized
I’m a West Country girl, from Somerset, not Devon but I have to admit Dartmouth is possibly my favourite place in the world. It’s one of those places that once you discover it, you keep wanting to return. I met my husband there, we lived there for the first few years...
by Nia Beynon | Aug 9, 2023 | Uncategorized
Before writing mystery novels, I was a philosophy professor. In my day job, a lot of my research focused on women’s issues. These days, I use some of that same research in my novels. All the novels in my three mystery series (Jessica James Mysteries, Pet Detective...
