Award winning author Liz Fielding was born with itchy feet. She was working in Zambia before her twenty-first birthday and, gathering her own special hero and a couple of children on the way, has lived in Botswana, Kenya and the Middle East, all of which have provided rich inspiration for her writing. She has written more than seventy books, several of which have won awards, and sold over 15 million copies. In 2019 she was honored with the Romantic Novelists' Association Outstanding Career Award.
Fielding's latest crime novel is Murder unde the Mistletoe.
At The Strand Magazine she tagged six books for a murder mystery tour of England, including:
THE CURATOR by M W CravenRead about the other entries on the list.
Craven’s Washington Poe series, set in Cumbria, in the north west of England, has the additional joy of one of the mostoriginal and engaging female sidekicks in Tilly Bradshaw. The books are a series and there are ongoing threads, but nothing that gets in the way of a great stand-alone crime novel.
The writing is pacy, the action non-stop and I chose this one because it has a winter setting in what is a stunning but always challenging landscape.
The Curator begins with the discovery of three pairs of fingers – one cut from the victims while alive, the other when dead. There’s a vile game afoot, with international connections. Nothing is as it seems. The killer is playing psychological mind games with police, but with each new twist the story goes to deeper until the truly shocking ending feels like a series of body blows.
--Marshal Zeringue
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