Frances Evesham Mystery Writer

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A bit about me…
I write mystery stories: the Exham on Sea contemporary crime series set in a small Somerset seaside town, and the Thatcham Hall Mysteries, 19th Century historical mystery romances set in Victorian England.

When I’m not writing, I collect grandsons, Victorian ancestors and historical trivia, like to smell the roses, lavender and rosemary, and cook with a glass of wine in one hand and a bunch of chillies in the other. I love the Arctic Circle and the equator and plan to visit the penguins at the South Pole one day, when I’ve knitted enough woollen underwear.

I’ve been many things, from a speech therapist to a road sweeper. Recently, I spent a few years working in the criminal courts, seeing the world from both the dock and the witness box alongside vulnerable witnesses and defendants. Now, I walk in the country and breathe sea air in Somerset.

Why I write…

There was once a teenager who stopped reading. The computer became his friend. He spent hours, fingers on keyboard, eyes glued to screen, clicking around the web or playing games. He was perfectly happy. How could he know he was missing out on one of life’s richest pleasures?

Just around that time, J K Rowling brought out another Harry Potter story. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire; the fourth or fifth of the series. When the teenager came home from school one day, he found a copy on his bed.

He loved every word, went back to the beginning of the series and read each book in order.

That teenager was my son. I forgot all about that day until, fifteen years later, he reminded me. He reads for pleasure every day, now.

Yes, it brought a tear to my crotchety old eye. That’s the power of the right book. It changes your life.

That’s why I write.

My books…
Love Agatha Christie, cosy crime, clever pets, cake and chocolate?

Feast your little grey cells on Murder at the Lighthouse, Murder on the Levels, and Murder on the Tor, small town murder mysteries set in Exham on Sea, a seaside resort in Somerset, in England’s West Country.

Intrigued by Gothic Victorian mystery?

Enjoy secrets, lies, murders and mystery at Thatcham Hall, a grand country house set in the green, rolling hills of Victorian England.

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