For the next six years she completed a romantic novel a year, only the last of which was published (Land of Dreams (out of print in any format). When her follow-up romance was rejected, she felt like murdering someone. So she did. She turned to crime. Dead Before Morning, her first mystery novel and the first book in her now 15-strong Rafferty and Llewellyn procedural series, was taken from Macmillan’s slush pile and published, both in the UK and the US by St Martin’s Press. It was the beginning of what has been a long and — ultimately — successful career as a mystery author. In the late summer of 2010, she made the decision to part with her publisher and turn indie, which is when she also began to make a proper living as an author. She has now published most of her backlist as ebooks, as well as independently epublishing two new novels (Kill and Kill #15 Rafferty series and The Egg Factory), her first short story collection (A Mix of Six) and her short non-fiction guide to formatting for kindle.
