Tag: New Zealand
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Killer on the Kelvin Explorer: early draft reactions
Feedback time! Before my mystery on a train leaves the workshop, I need to make sure it’s the best it can be. My wonderful and very clever beta readers provided pages and pages of excellent notes. They also left lots of fun reactions as they read through the book. I picked out a few to…
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The true origins of my latest mystery: Killer on the Kelvin Explorer
I recently asked Mum to please dig out the family photo albums. Her task: to find train-related snaps from my childhood. She certainly did not disappoint! I should have known after heritage railway trips, train birthday cakes, my childhood reading material, handmade knits from Gran and handmade toys from Grandad, that I’d end up writing a train book.…
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Killer on the Kelvin Explorer release date
Killer on the Kelvin Explorer (The Milverton Mysteries #5) is scheduled for release on 9 September 2026. That’s just one month until the Kelvin Explorer pulls into Milverton Station! Addison Harper and Sergeant Jake Murphy are off to a shaky start with their new living situation. So, when Addison has the chance to get out…
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Get your ticket (i.e. pre-order the book) today for the Kelvin Explorer
Ding ding! All aboard the Kelvin Explorer… Get your ticket (i.e. pre-order the book) today for:🚂 a powerful steam engine,🚃 lovingly restored heritage carriages,🏞️ dramatic landscapes,🫖 endless cups of tea, and💀 the abrupt end of an important man. Passengers have been promised an unforgettable day out – and they’re going to get it.
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A hike, a picnic, and a corpse…
Addison should never have strayed so far from the path. Death in Douglas Glade is a light, fun, and cosy mystery set in New Zealand’s great – or is it grave? – outdoors. Check it out for yourself:
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A positively purple quirky Kiwi cosy mystery
Milverton is in the running for the Terrific Town Award so a dramatic death at the opening ceremony is far from ideal. A few Poison at Penshaw Hall reader review snippets:
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All aboard for the next Milverton Mystery
Toot toot! It’s almost time for the next Milverton Mystery… Killer on the Kelvin Explorer features a powerful steam engine pulling lovingly restored heritage carriages, dramatic landscapes, endless cups of tea, and an unexpected death en route which threatens to derail not only the day’s excursion but any of Milverton’s future marketing efforts:
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A cosy mystery set in New Zealand’s great outdoors
Take a walk outsideBreathe in the fresh forest airGood for you, they said… Death in Douglas Glade is a light, fun, and cosy mystery set in New Zealand’s great – or is it grave? – outdoors. Check it out for yourself:
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Scottish mystery author Angela C. Nurse on The Milverton Mysteries
‘Cosy mystery for a modern audience.’ – Angela C. Nurse (author of The Rowan McFarlane Detective Mysteries) on The Milverton Mysteries With me in New Zealand and Angela C. Nurse in Scotland, we may live just about as far away from each other as it’s possible to get, but we can still connect when it…