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Overview: I can remember, as a child, playing with figures cut from magazines and spending hours creating scenes and telling stories of their lives and adventures. Then the real world and earning a living intervened.
After a long career in education, when writing was confined to academic journals, I looked forward to retirement and being able to indulge my passion for crime fiction. A fan of the golden age of crime writers as well as modern authors, a "meet-the-author" event at my local library birthed a desire to try my hand at writing my own book based in my native Northern Ireland. Lockdown gave me the chance to undertake a creative writing course and the time and space to put it into practice. The result is The Perfume Killer, the first in a series featuring DCI Gawn Girvin, a character who has been living in my imagination for over twenty years waiting to be brought to life.
I live in Carrickfergus on the shores of Belfast Lough with my husband and crazy rescue dog, Hope. My hobbies are watching Formula 1, steam trains, researching the family history and spending time with my two grandchildren.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller
Murder on the Table (#5)
A sudden death turns a charity bash into chaos
When DCI Gawn Girvin is invited to attend a gala dinner for Belfast’s great and good, little does she know it will mark the beginning of a new multiple murder investigation.
With the charity executive collapsed on the floor and a fellow diner taken seriously ill, the detective must work out if the hors d’oeuvres were simply dodgy or if something more sinister is afoot.
Attention focuses on a mysterious woman spotted leaving the scene. But if the poisoning was deliberate, it would have taken more than one person to pull it off.
Given the event was full of illustrious attendees, Girvin suspects organised crime is involved. Yet when she gets nowhere with the investigation, she seeks help outside the force, consulting security expert Mike Lee, an ex-lover who is not over their acrimonious break-up.
Will she find the answers or has she been served a mystery that is impossible to solve?
Killing The Vibe (#6)
The discovery of a man’s corpse creates public outcry and leads to divisions within the force.
Belfast police are totally in the dark as to who the victim is, although strange incisions on his back suggest a personally motivated crime.
When the press go to town with alarming theories, DCI Gawn Girvin resolves to fight back by enlisting the help of an ambitious young journalist to get the media on side.
Yet when the reporter’s life is threatened, the detective clashes with her trusted lieutenant, DI Paul Maxwell.
With her judgement under question, Girvin is accused of jeopardising public safety. Will she crack the case and survive with her career intact?
Nothing But Smiles (#7)
Emboldened by police indifference, a serial stalker is upping their game…
Women in Belfast are waking up after a night out with no recollection of their return home. Not too unusual an occurrence, except there is a sign something is seriously amiss: a smiley-face emoji daubed on their abdomens.
A journalist who has herself suffered such an assault approaches DCI Gawn Girvin. She has tracked down other women with the same experience. Some have already gone to the police, but their concerns were dismissed.
The senior detective takes it upon herself to investigate. She is dealing with a strange sort of perp. The attacks don’t appear overtly sexual but someone is clearly intent on humiliating the victims.
Second guessing their target’s next move, Girvin’s team lies in wait for them. But even with heightened security, their quarry gets away with attacks right under their noses. And now he has Girvin herself in his sights.
Not one to back down, Girvin is more motivated than ever. She’ll get to the bottom of this case, even though the personal risk is high, and wipe the smile right off a dangerous villain’s face.
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