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Norman Russell


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Hello, reader! I hope that all's well with you. I am a graduate of Oxford and London universities, with the degrees of MA and PhD respectively. I served abroad in several regiments of the British Army before training as a teacher, and spending a very happy 26 years as Head of English in a comprehensive school in Liverpool UK. After accepting early retirement, I began a new career as an author, and to date I have had twenty novels published. My current publisher is the brilliant Joffe Books, who have just published the first of my Oldminster series of detective novels - more to follow!

My fiction leans towards the 'cosy' genre, though there are plenty of thrills and cunning plots to be found. I like to produce rounded characters who exist in
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An Invitation to Murder (Th...

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An Antique Murder (The Oldm...

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The Secret of Bagnett Hall ...

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No Choice but Murder (The O...

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Death at the Altar (The Old...

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The Oldminster Mysteries: B...

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The Advocate's Wife (Inspec...

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Metaphysics As a Personal A...

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“Smoking Kills’, it said on the packet. Yes, but not yet.”
Norman Russell, The Secret of Bagnett Hall

“Nothing ventured, nothing gained.”
Norman Russell, An Invitation to Murder

“our gain in weight has been matched by an increase in wisdom.”
Norman Russell, An Antique Murder

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