Tag: Mystery
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Independent bookshops stocking The Milverton Mysteries (new addition!)
The increasingly unhinged adventures of Addison, Mabel, Jake, and Keith are now in stock in even more independent bookshops! The latest addition is the wonderfully charming Mewington’s Book Shoppe in Foxton (which is also home to Foxton Fizz, as mentioned in Fright on Stage Right). Here’s a picture of me with Nicola and Kate of Mewington’s:…
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Opposites attract? Heated Rivalry vs The Milverton Mysteries
Are these books the most incompatible comparison titles ever? I had a hilarious chat with friends recently about the overlap (or lack thereof) between Heated Rivalry and The Milverton Mysteries, and so I had to see what Venn had to say about the matter… Opposites attract, right?? There’s not nearly enough overlap here for me…
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2025 Writing Highlights: Charting
Addison on top in April, 2½ years after stumbling over his first death in Milverton, is my final writing highlight of the year! Thank you so much to all the wonderful readers for sharing my cosy, quirky, queer, Kiwi mysteries. It means everything! Now let’s see what we can get up to in 2026… The…
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2025 Writing Highlights: Visualising
Addison, Jake, Mabel, and Keith have never looked so adorable! I’ve always had a strong impression of their appearance in my head while writing The Milverton Mysteries and I periodically describe them on page but this year was the first time we’ve had a visual representation. I had great fun working with illustrator Surya Dexter…
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Cosy crime capitals: St Mary Mead, Cabot Cove, Brokenwood, and Milverton
Another wonderful review for the latest Milverton Mystery, Fright on Stage Right, this time by Craig Sisterson writing for the Fall 2025 edition of the US-based Deadly Pleasures Mystery Magazine, featuring words like “intriguing” and “charming”! Addison Harper’s Milverton is held up alongside other cosy crime capitals such as Miss Marple’s St Mary Mead and…
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The Bookshop Detectives co-author praises The Milverton Mysteries
The despicably clever and talented co-author of The Bookshop Detectives, Louise Ward, has said such wonderful and generous things about The Milverton Mysteries: The Milverton Mysteries are a breath of sweet, fresh air: funny, cosy, full of atmosphere and heart. You’ll fall in love with Addison. Louise Ward, co-author of The Bookshop Detectives Investigate for…