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Bea Green

Born

The United Kingdom

Genre

Contemporary, Crime

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I am the daughter of a British diplomat and a Spanish academic, spending my younger years growing up in Brazil and Mexico.
My mother is Spanish and I have close bonds with my Spanish family, who live in Madrid, Murcia, Cadiz and Andalucía. My Spanish grandfather owned an olive tree farm in Andalucía called Los Pinos and it was the inspiration for my book, La Finca.
I wrote La Finca when my mother began to get Alzheimer's. I felt my link with Spain was loosening, I had already lost my beloved Spanish grandmother, whom I was very close to, and I felt great sadness to see my mother fading away. Many of my Spanish memories are included in La Finca.
I also spent moments during my childhood visiting my other grandmother's house in Cornwall, calle I am the daughter of a British diplomat and a Spanish academic, spending my younger years growing up in Brazil and Mexico.
My mother is Spanish and I have close bonds with my Spanish family, who live in Madrid, Murcia, Cadiz and Andalucía. My Spanish grandfather owned an olive tree farm in Andalucía called Los Pinos and it was the inspiration for my book, La Finca.
I wrote La Finca when my mother began to get Alzheimer's. I felt my link with Spain was loosening, I had already lost my beloved Spanish grandmother, whom I was very close to, and I felt great sadness to see my mother fading away. Many of my Spanish memories are included in La Finca.
I also spent moments during my childhood visiting my other grandmother's house in Cornwall, called Trenouth. Those memories are tied in with the story. During World War 2, my father was evacuated out of London and sent to live in Cornwall. My grandmother, who was Irish/Indian, fell in love with the place.
There was a major shipwreck in Fox Cove two years before I was born (1969) and I was told as a child that the men from the shipwreck came to the house in the middle of the night. This incident I have woven into the story, but looking at the tragic incidence of people-smuggling, a modern-day reality.
The main theme for the book, however, is recovery from poor mental health, a topic that is important to me, which is why I also wrote surfing into the story. The inspiration was a news article about a Cornish lady who suffered from mental health issues and recovered by surfing in the sea. Nowadays, doctors in Cornwall can prescribe surfing lessons for mental health!
My book, Stealing the Spanish Princess, is the first in a series of art crime books. Art is a subject I studied throughout school and at St Andrew's University. I shared a love of art with my Spanish grandmother and we visited many galleries in Madrid together. Those memories, like so many others, are written into the book.
I like writing about fallible people, who are not perfect, so my imaginary police officers do ignore, bend or break the rules (usually with good intentions). It must be the Latin side of my character!
The Chagall Cello, the second in the series, is out now.
The readers who love my books are the ones that keep me writing because to be creative, and at the same time give pleasure to others in doing so, is the best thing in the world.
I live in Edinburgh, Scotland, with my husband and two daughters. ...more

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	Stealing the Spanish Princess (Art Theft Mystery #1) 4.02 avg rating — 86 ratings — 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
	The Chagall Cello (Art Theft Mystery #2) 3.77 avg rating — 22 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
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