Carolyn enjoys writing - sticking with it through the hard times because she has stories to tell.
Hostage to Fortune is Carolyn's eighth title and the fourth in a series of 'history mysteries' where modern day mysteries (murder, abduction, fraud) are solved through an understanding of families' histories. Investigation into a missing keeper of a safe house leads Skye and Fergal (our historical consultants) to preventing a psychopathic killer adding to his tally.
A Second Strand, her seventh title is Carolyn's second murder mystery (though all other books involve some degree of mystery of one sort or another).
The main suspect disappears two days after he discovers his dying neighbour and before DNA tests indicate the victim was his father.
Is he guilty? If so why? If not who is? And what, if any, are the links to a previous murder, perpetrated in the same small town (Yarmouth, Isle of Wight) two years earlier.

Her Parents' Daughter A woman is arrested, gun in hand, standing over a murder victim. Was she as guilty as she appeared to be or had she been set up? And if set up, why and by whom?

A Set of Lies was published to mark the Napoleonic bi-centenary in 2015 is an alternate historical mystery covering two hundred years of a family's history. It introduces Skye and Fergal who feature in her new soon-to-be-published A Second Strand

The Iniquities Trilogy; The Last Dance, Walking Alone and Runaways
Each book stands alone but as a trilogy the reader learns more about the extended Donaldson family than they ever knew themselves. This is now being reworked as one book to be available in the Spring of 2018. (Well... musicians re-record their earlier works...)

Highly Unsuitable Girl In which a northern girl, who moves south, finally understands who she is and what she wants from life, eventually growing up (at the age of forty something).

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Promoting Crime Fiction

Two fathers have kept their past hidden from their son but the son finds out that something happened and confronts the dad. This seems to set off a series of events that changes the life of the sons. The story takes us through the sons' stories of revenge for what their own life could have been. Then Gordon calls Skye & Fergal to investigate the disappearance of Diane Hammill. Her disappearance brings them to the history behind these two young men and takes us back to the Spanish Civil War and to who should be the heir to the fortune left by Warwick Eden when he is killed. There are many twists and turns with the exposure of the plans of Guy who is the nephew to Warwick.

by Nancy Witt

An excellent book which kept me intrigued until the end. I recommend it wholeheartedly.

by Rachel Cobb