I am pleased to welcome Lesley Cookman, best selling author of the Libby Sargeant Mysteries.
First, thank you, Victoria, for inviting me to your
blog. Romantic suspense was one of my first loves after Golden Age Crime
Fiction, and I cut my teeth on the wonderful Mary Stewart’s books, the same
genre into which at least some of yours fall.
But crime always came first. It started, I suppose
with a love of Enid Blyton’s Famous Five books, followed by the Secret Seven
and the Adventure series, but the Famous Five were my favourites. In fact, one
of my favourite ever reviews was that all you had to do was substitute lashings
of ginger beer for G and Ts, and you’d have an Enid Blyton. It wasn’t meant to
be complimentary, but it was to me!
Having said that, these days my books seem to be read
by people who also read Lilian Harry’s Burracombe series and Rebecca Shaw’s
Turnham Malpas series, and for the same reasons. The characters’ stories are
continued in each successive book, and readers invest in them. Comments we all
receive are “It’s like meeting old friends.” In my books, there is usually a
murder, the investigation of which gives a hook to hang the story on and a shape
to the story itself.
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