I was born and bred in Yorkshire, close to the Dales, and now live in Leeds. I am married and have two sons and a soon-to-be daughter-in-law.
I’ve been writing for most of my life. It’s what keeps me sane, although I have to admit it isn’t always easy, helped as I invariably am by our two gangster cats, aptly named Bonnie and Clyde.
Most of my inspiration comes from life, although not necessarily mine. I’m well past the heroine stage now! Like many other writers, one of my favourite pastimes is people watching, so, if you ever see a strange woman sitting scribbling in a café, beware! It could be me…
When Carol makes a decision to trace the baby who was stolen from her over a decade ago, she has no idea of the tangled web of lies and deceit that await her. But Carol has secrets of her own, which she has promised to keep—secrets that will put a long-standing friendship in jeopardy if they are ever revealed.
Sally Jenkins enjoys a quiet life, keeping well out of all the office drama at Millers. But the discovery of a body under a footbridge on the ring road drops her world into chaos, as Detective Inspector Brian Simpson and Detective Sergeant Mike Bell come calling. Can the police connect the deadly chains of events, sparked by a selfless act twenty-three years ago, before the killer strikes again?
When government cutbacks leave RAF pilot Steve Wilson without a job, he decides to invest his redundancy money in a family-run museum. But Steve has an ulterior motive: a mission that leads him to a remote Yorkshire Dales village to fulfil a lifelong ambition, unaware of the repercussions his actions will have on the villagers and his own family…once long-buried secrets come to the surface.