My characters are bookworms

I think my characters read more than I do. Lucky them. They just sit back on trains or in lavish libraries in grand country homes and read Lady Clues in between solving mysteries. What a life! They should thank me 🙂

I guess I’m living vicariously through them. But I love that they’re bookworms.

All my main characters—and quite a few side characters too—love to read the case files of Lady Clues.

She’s a fiction London female detective, based on a real life 1920s detective called Maud West.

I created her character as a way to help my protagonists work out how to solve mysteries, but then one day I thought I should try and write what they were reading.

To my surprise, Lady Clue’s voice came to me very easily. She’s a little bit Phyrne Fisher mixed with the dowager countess from Downton Abbey that Maggie Smith played.

You’ll hear a lot about Lady Clues in A Roaring Murder, the first book in my Lady Marigold’s 1920s Murder Mysteries.

Lady Marigold and her assistant, Elke, are obsessed with Lady Clues’ cases—much to the annoyance of Inspector Gideon Loxley, who’s trying to solve a murder case the traditional way. Here’s a scene that’s one of my favourites:

I write about Lady Clues so much I decided to start a series just for her. I can’t wait to write it next year, but in the meantime, I’ll be giving away a free case file or short story each month to my Roaring Readers club.

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