62 ratings | 60 reviews | avg rating:3.44

L.M. Krier’s Followers (109)

L.M.’s Bookshelves

to-read (0)
currently-reading (0)
read (62)

L.M.’s Friends (130)

Kate

2,002 books | 1,260 friends

Tracy Fenton

3,821 books | 2,206 friends

Rebecca

1,734 books | 131 friends

Alfred Nobile

1,936 books | 746 friends

Sarah

3,573 books | 1,965 friends

Lynda

2,738 books | 421 friends

Dania Nasca

92 books | 76 friends

Lucy

2,639 books | 118 friends

More friends…

L.M. Krier

Goodreads Author

Born

in Nantwich, The United Kingdom

Website

https://www.teddarlingcrimeseries.uk/

Twitter

tottielimejuice

Genre

Crime, Thriller, Memoir

Member Since

December 2015

edit data

Retired journalist, freelance copywriter and copy editor Lesley Tither writes under various pen names for different genres. Already well known for travel memoirs as Tottie Limejuice, Lesley also writes crime fiction under the name L. M. Krier. Her first children's fiction book, adventure/crime, The Dog with the Golden Eyes, is published under under the pen-name L M Kay.

Writing as L M Krier, Lesley has published twenty-two crime fiction books in the popular Ted Darling Crime Series: The First Time Ever, Baby's Got Blue Eyes, Two Little Boys, When I'm Old and Grey, Shut Up and Drive, Only the Lonely, Wild Thing, Walk on By, Preacher Man, Cry for the Bad Man, Every Game You Play, Where the Girls Are, Down Down Down, The Cuckoo is a Pretty Bird Retired journalist, freelance copywriter and copy editor Lesley Tither writes under various pen names for different genres. Already well known for travel memoirs as Tottie Limejuice, Lesley also writes crime fiction under the name L. M. Krier. Her first children's fiction book, adventure/crime, The Dog with the Golden Eyes, is published under under the pen-name L M Kay.

Writing as L M Krier, Lesley has published twenty-two crime fiction books in the popular Ted Darling Crime Series: The First Time Ever, Baby's Got Blue Eyes, Two Little Boys, When I'm Old and Grey, Shut Up and Drive, Only the Lonely, Wild Thing, Walk on By, Preacher Man, Cry for the Bad Man, Every Game You Play, Where the Girls Are, Down Down Down, The Cuckoo is a Pretty Bird, Dirty Old Town, The End of the Line, It’s Oh So Quiet, A Woman’s Heart, No Way to Say Goodbye
Everybody Hurts Sometime, Sweet Little Lies, Not To Tell.

'Sell the Pig' is the first in a series of travel memoirs describing how Lesley, writing as Tottie Limejuice, decided to make the move from the UK to France to start a new life, taking with her an 89-year-old mother suffering from vascular dementia. The story continues in three further books, 'Is That Billinge Lump?' 'Mother, Was It Worth It?' 'Biff the Useless Mention', and 'Angling Bumateurs'. There's an additional standalone prequel to the series, Trot On!, about her time running a holiday riding centre in Wales, before her move to France.

Lesley is also the not-so-secret writer behind the pen-name of Carl Granger. The book Looking for Lulu is darker crime fiction.

Lesley is a former journalist, working as both a criminal court and coroner's court reporter. She also worked as a case tracker for the Crown Prosecution Service, and for a firm investigating irregularities in offshore finance. Her other jobs have included owning and running a holiday riding centre and acting as a 'charity mugger', lying in wait to sign up shoppers for a wildlife charity.

Lesley's interests centre around nature and wildlife and encompass dogs, wild camping and organic gardening. She lives in the Auvergne region of Central France and holds dual French/British nationality. Her current dogs are two rescued border collies

Want to chat with Lesley? You'll find a Tottie Limejuice Chat Group on Facebook, with lots of photos of the Auvergne.

...more

Learn more
Ask the Author

To ask L.M. Krier questions, please sign up.

Combine Editions
L.M. Krier’s books

Average rating: 4.5 · 11,162 ratings · 662 reviews · 27 distinct works • Similar authors

	Baby's Got Blue Eyes (Ted Darling #2) 4.23 avg rating — 1,056 ratings — published 2015 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wild Thing (Ted Darling Crime Series, #7) 4.49 avg rating — 730 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Two Little Boys (Ted Darling Crime Series, #3) 4.43 avg rating — 697 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Preacher Man (Ted Darling #9) 4.53 avg rating — 664 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	When I'm Old and Grey (Ted Darling Crime Series, #4) 4.45 avg rating — 669 ratings — published 2015 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shut Up and Drive (Ted Darling Crime Series, #5) 4.46 avg rating — 643 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Only the Lonely (Ted Darling #6) 4.52 avg rating — 620 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Walk On By (Ted Darling #8) 4.53 avg rating — 611 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The First Time Ever (Ted Darling #1) 4.20 avg rating — 604 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Where the Girls Are (Ted Darling #12) 4.64 avg rating — 502 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

More books by L.M. Krier…

32 posts
L.M. Krier's Blog

New Book Release – Ted Darling crime series – L M Krier

It’s here! The lastest book in the popular Ted Darling crime series by L M Krier is now available to pre-order for Kindle here

It’s also available NOW in paperback via Amazon (further distributors to follow)

The stunning cover is a Stockport photo (Underbank) from talented photographer Neil Smith, with design by DMR Creative.

New Book Release – Ted Darling crime series – L M Krier

And he

Series by L.M. Krier

Ted Darling (21 books)
by

L.M. Krier (Goodreads Author)

4.50 avg rating — 11,159 ratings

rss
L.M.’s Recent Updates

L.M. Krier made a comment on Kelly’s review of Baby's Got Blue Eyes (Ted Darling #2) " There's a new cover image for this book now which unfortunately doesn't show up on here. You can see it on the Amazon page, though. ...more "
Sep 23, 2025 01:00AM · see review
L.M. Krier liked Kelly's review of Baby's Got Blue Eyes (Ted Darling #2): "I'm reviewing this as part of a tour with Hygge Book Tours. This book is the second in a series featuring DI Ted Darling as the protagonist. I hadn't read the previous book, but I didn't feel as though I'd missed out on anything. In fact, I felt a str" Read more of this review »
Sep 23, 2025 12:58AM · see review
L.M. Krier joined the group Goodreads Librarians Group
Jul 09, 2025 03:34AM · like

More of L.M.'s books…

Quotes by L.M. Krier (?)

“with saying it was Waldren who killed Callum, I wonder how sympathetic the public would be to helping find the killer of the bad man?’ She was gathering her things together again and preparing to leave. ‘Well, start with DC Winter, isn’t it, at South Manchester? Bring him in. And I promise to see what else I can do.’ Ted was hoping he wouldn’t be too late getting away. It was his night for self-defence and judo. He’d warned Trev he would be unlikely to make it in time for the juniors but that he would try his best to get there for judo. Now that things were back to normal between them and Ted’s face was looking much better, though was still painful, it would do no harm to remind Trev that he seldom let his guard down without good reason. It could make for a lively evening, which was what he needed. It was late afternoon when Jo came to find him, just before the planned end of day get-together. ‘I’m just back from seeing Páraic’s parish priest, Father Hughes. John,’ Jo told him.”
― L.M. Krier, Cry for the Bad Man

0 likes

“direct message on”
― L.M. Krier, Two Little Boys

0 likes

“angry-looking cut”
― L.M. Krier, Baby's Got Blue Eyes

0 likes

See all L.M. Krier's quotes »

Topics Mentioning This Author

topics	posts	views	last activity
Reading with Style: Fall 2016 Completed Tasks	937	96	Nov 30, 2016 09:01PM
Game Night: Vikki's Ultimate Game Show Challenge	105	31	Dec 13, 2018 12:27AM
Reading with Style: SP 19 Completed Tasks	859	72	May 31, 2019 09:01PM
Reading with Style: SU 19 Completed Tasks	1152	129	Aug 31, 2019 09:02PM