Nell Dixon
Multi-award winning, best-selling, author. www.nelldixon.com
Saturday, June 21, 2025
Summer Solstice already!
It's hard to believe that half the year has already shot past. Here in Devon the weather is hot and dry, a sure sign that I'm busy writing Christmas books! One, the next Miss Underhay is very Christmassy with crackling log fires, carols, mince pies and murder. The other book will be the 4th in the Secret Detective Agency series and is set in the grey and dark days of January 1942 with Jane and Arthur facing new perils.
Murder in Paris, book 21 in the Miss underhay series is just going through edits and I'm looking forward to you all reading it. Likewise, Murder most British, Jane and Arthur's third adventure. This time in war torn London. The Christmas Miss Underhay book is being set around here, one of my favourite places and just a couple of miles from my house. This of course is a picture in sunnier times. But in winter with the mist swirling and no one around except a murderer...
Tuesday, May 27, 2025
Cover Reveal - Murder in Paris!
Ta dah! Cover reveal for Murder in Paris - book 21 and a new adventure for Kitty and Matt. HERE
Freshly baked baguettes and strong coffee,a moonlit walk beneath the twinkling lights of the Eiffel tower, sunset over the rooftops… and oh là là! A murder in the French capital? This is one for Kitty Underhay!
Paris, 1937. Kitty Underhay, with a croissant in hand and her handsome husband Matt by her side, is soaking up the delightfully Parisian charms of the French capital. Kitty attends a fashion show where she is enamoured by the dazzling gowns, but the afternoon takes a very sour turn when one of the models, Simone Belliste, is found dead with a pair of razor sharp tailoring scissors nearby.
Kitty and Matt are determined to work out who could be behind the murder. They perch in tiny cafés on cobblestone streets, deliberating over who would do such a thing. Simone had many admirers, including a wealthy older Englishman who had been wooing her and a handsome young Frenchman who was besotted with her. But she was also surrounded by glamorous designers, competitive models, and a jealous younger sister… and nobody is without motive.
Just as Kitty and Matt are jotting down their list of suspects, they receive a call: Simone’s sister Nathalie has been attacked, and her valuable folder of dressmaking patterns is missing. Can they unravel the secrets surrounding the two sisters? Or will they be next in line…?
With a murderer in their midst, can the team of two find the killer before it’s adieu for both of them? Or will this Parisian sojourn be their last?
Friday, May 23, 2025
Book 20!
Can you believe it? Book 20 in the Miss Underhay series is out today! Thank you to everyone who has stuck with me on this crazy journey. I never expected people to love Kitty and Matt as much as me so it's an absolute joy to keep writing these mysteries. I hope you'll enjoy this one!
You can get your copy HERE
Saturday, May 10, 2025
Bristol Crime Festival
UK readers - I'll be on two panels at TICKETS Friday 16th and Sunday 18th May so coming up very quickly. There are some fabulous authors appearing so if you are in and around Bristol next weekend it would be lovely to see you :)
Tuesday, May 06, 2025
Book news!!
I'm thrilled to say that I've signed a new contract with Bookouture for 6 more books! You can read all about it HERE
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
It's a twofer!
Huge excitement today with the release of The Seaside Murders - the second in the Secret Detective Agency series - and the cover reveal for book 3 - Murdr most British!
Grab your preorder HERE
And if you haven't yet got your mitts on this little beauty. Then you can get it HERE In fact, you can get all three books for less than a fiver if you do it now!!!
Friday, April 25, 2025
Guest Blogger - Karen King
A warm welcome to the fabulous Karen King and her shiny fun new book,The Runaway Wives.
Here is the back cover blurb:
'We’re leaving. And there’s nothing either of you can do about it!’
When the surprise holiday Dee thinks her husband has booked for her sixtieth birthday weekend turns out to be yet another solo golfing break –
it’s the last straw.
Meanwhile her best friend Babs’s other half has decided to move to Spain and is acting like he doesn’t need to consult anyone. Not even Babs!
Well, if their husbands think they can do what they want, so can their wives. So, with that thought, the two best friends leap into Dee’s trusty car and head for the seaside, and an adventure they’ll never forget.
Back home their furious husbands want them to return immediately. But – as they begin to enjoy their newfound freedom – will either of the runaway wives ever want to come back home again?
An absolutely hilarious, uplifting, escapist story, perfect for fans of Maddie Please, Judy Leigh and Dawn French.
Doesn't that sound fun? I asked Karen to tell us the inspiration behind the book:
As a ‘golden yearer’ myself, I love the present trend to base stories around older characters, to show them dealing with life’s problems, coping with relationships, having fun and just generally living their life. I’ve written a few romcoms where the main characters are in their twenties or
thirties and I really wanted to change that so was delighted when Boldwood offered me a three book contract to write ‘golden years’ women’s fiction. The Runaway Wives is the first book in this contract.
I really enjoyed writing this book. I had so much fun writing about Dee and Babs, the main characters, who set off for a week in Cornwall when both their husbands make selfish decisions without consulting them. I’ve always loved Cornwall, regularly holidaying there when my four daughters were young, and finally moving there in 1999. I lived in Cornwall for several years and have some wonderful memories. It’s the ideal place for getting away from it all and was perfect for Dee and Babs to ‘run away’ to
and have some fun together. It was a nostalgic trip down memory lane to write about the cobbled streets, sandy beaches and picturesque harbour in the fictional village of Port Telwyn.
As the week goes by Dee and Babs both have to come to terms with the fact that their long marriages might be over. People often stop in relationships that aren’t really working for many reasons, maybe they feel that they’re too old to start again or they feel a loyalty to their partner because they’ve been together so long, but then something happens and they have a tough decision to make. Do they trudge on miserably or go it alone? That’s what both Dee and Babs have to decide. I firmly believe that it’s never too late to have a second chance at life. I myself remarried at fifty-eight and moved to Spain with my husband Dave when we were both in our sixties. You’re never too old to start over and try something new.
About Karen: Karen King writes psychological suspense and women's fiction and is celebrating her fortieth year of publication. She has also had 120 children’s books, two young adult novels, and several short stories for women’s magazines published. Her early writing career was spent writing for Jackie and other teenage and children's magazines including Winnie the Pooh and Barbie. Her suspense novels The Mother In Law, The Perfect Stepmother and The Stranger in my Bed and her romantic novel The Cornish Hotel by the Sea all became International Amazon bestsellers and several of her books have
been translated into other languages.
You can get your copy of The Runaway Wives HERE
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