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Jan Edwards - winner of the Arnold Bennett Book Prize with Winter Downs - Bunch Courtney Investigation #1.

She also has the Winchester Slim Volume prize and British Fantasy KEW award. Plus a joint British Fantasy Award for best Small Press (Alchemy Press).

Her latest book. In Her Defence - Bunch Courtney Investigation #2 is available now in paper and kindle formats!

Her short fiction can be found in crime, horror and fantasy anthologies in UK, US and Europe.

Jan edits anthologies for The Alchemy Press and Fox Spirit Press, and has written for Dr Who spinoffs with Reel Time Pictures as well as a short story in the accompanying book.

More details available at : http://janedwardsblog.wordpress.com/

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Jan Edwards Glad you like the look of Winter Downs, and yes,the Kindle version has just gone up on Amazon this week. Just in time for the launch.
Jan Edwards The strange noises and lights in my parent's house back when I was a teenager could make a good supernatural book.
But for crime? I would have be way …more
The strange noises and lights in my parent's house back when I was a teenager could make a good supernatural book.
But for crime? I would have be way back in the early 70s, sitting in a pub on the St Helier estate (nr Croydon) when two guys walked in - blasted the bar with a sawn-off - and calmly walked off again. The fact that the barman hit the deck the moment he saw them said a great deal!(less)
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In Her Defence

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Trees and Western Breezes #courtyardgarden #gardening #storms

The cherry plum tree in our front garden has had a chequered history since we moved in eight years ago.

Once we had cut back the years of ivy growth (which had pulled down three substantial brick pillars down the side of the garden)  and removed three x 20ft cypresses and a 15ft holly tree, the tree was revealed in all its dubious glory. With the undergrowth cleared its six distinct stems had the i

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