As an avid reader and life-long writer, Jayne Cowie also enjoys digging in her garden and makes an excellent devil’s food cake.
She lives near London with her family.
Her new novel is Curfew. It opens with the discovery of a female body in a park.
At CrimeReads Cowie tagged eight thrillers, by female writers, that center women's experiences. One classic title on the list:
A Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side by Agatha ChristieRead about the other entries on the list.
With the creation of Jane Marple, Christie took a figure often derided—the spinster—and showed us the power of being a woman who is invisible. Miss Marple is neither young nor pretty, nor does she have to justify her existence by being sexually attractive to the male characters. She simply gets to be smarter than them. I like this one in particular because it has so many different female characters and throws Hollywood glamour at a small English village, with predictably entertaining results.
--Marshal Zeringue
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