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Elizabeth Ducie

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I was born and brought up in Birmingham. As a teenager, I won a holiday to France, Spain and Portugal for writing essays and poetry in a newspaper competition. Despite this promising start in the literary world, I took scientific qualifications and spent more than thirty years as a manufacturing consultant, technical writer and small business owner, publishing a number of pharmaceutical text books and editing a technical journal along the way. I returned to creative writing in 2006 and since then, I have written short stories and poetry for competitions — and have had a few wins, several honourable mentions and some short-listing. I am also published in several anthologies.

Under the Chudleigh Phoenix Publications imprint, I have published f I was born and brought up in Birmingham. As a teenager, I won a holiday to France, Spain and Portugal for writing essays and poetry in a newspaper competition. Despite this promising start in the literary world, I took scientific qualifications and spent more than thirty years as a manufacturing consultant, technical writer and small business owner, publishing a number of pharmaceutical text books and editing a technical journal along the way. I returned to creative writing in 2006 and since then, I have written short stories and poetry for competitions — and have had a few wins, several honourable mentions and some short-listing. I am also published in several anthologies.

Under the Chudleigh Phoenix Publications imprint, I have published four solo collections of short stories and co-authored another two. I also write and lecture on business skills for writers running their own small business. My debut novel, Gorgito’s Ice Rink, which was published in 2014, was Runner Up in Writing Magazine's 2015 Self-Published Book of the Year Awards. In August 2018, it received a Chill With A Book Award. My second novel, Counterfeit!, was published in 2016. It is the first in a series of international thrillers. It came third in the Literature Works 2015 First Page Writing Prize. The second in the series, Deception!, came out in September 2017, and Corruption! came a year later. The fourth and final part of the series will be published in September 2024. In the meantime, I have written the Coombesford Chronicles, a series of cosy crime, set in and English village.

Having left Birmingham to study in London, I lived for more than twenty years in Wilmington, Kent. In 2007, I moved to the South West of England, where I live with my husband, Michael, in a converted granary sited picturesquely on the banks of, and occasionally within the path of, a small stream. In 2012 I graduated from Exeter University with an MA in Creative Writing and closed down my technical consultancy in order to concentrate full-time on my writing.

I was editor of the Chudleigh Phoenix Community Magazine, a monthly online newsletter for fourteen years, finishing in 2023. I am a member of the Chudleigh Writers' Circle and was one of the organisers of the annual Chudleigh Literary Festival which ran from 2011 to 2019. I was Director of the Exeter Literary Festival for 2020 and 2021. I am also a member of Exeter Writers, South Hams Authors' Network, Teignmouth Writers and the Women in Publishing community in the US. I spend far too much time on Facebook and Twitter, but have met some wonderful members of the writing community as a result.

When I am not writing, I am a keen reader and singer. I also enjoy live theatre of any kind, share with my husband a love of fine dining, and am a real sucker for the kind of country house hotel where you can kick off your shoes and curl up with a book in front of a log fire.

I would like you to believe I am also a keen walker, enjoying the beauties of Dartmoor and the South Devon coastline—but, as a writer, I'm good at making things up. ...more

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	Murder at Mountjoy Manor (Coombesford Chronicles Book 1) 4.06 avg rating — 420 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
	Villainy at the Village Store (Coombesford Chronicles #2) 4.41 avg rating — 85 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
	Counterfeit! (Suzanne Jones, #1) 3.83 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 2016 — 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
	Calamity at Coombesford Church: An unmissable cozy murder mystery set in the heart of an English village (Coombesford Chronicles Book 3) 4.64 avg rating — 53 ratings	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
	Gorgito's Ice Rink 4.27 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	Silenced at the Summer Social (Coombesford Chronicles #4) 4.44 avg rating — 27 ratings	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
	Deception! (Suzanne Jones, #2) 4.29 avg rating — 21 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
	Corruption! (Suzanne Jones, #3) 4.61 avg rating — 18 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
	Coombesford Calendar volume I 4.64 avg rating — 14 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
	Retribution!: a gripping and explosive crime thriller full of twists (The Jones Sisters Thrillers Book 4) 4.83 avg rating — 12 ratings	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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I started August at the Writers’ Summer School in Swanwick, the first time I’ve been since 2023. The picture (left) shows Sharon Cook and me in our posh frocks at the School Prom on the last night. It may look like we were partying but it was the end of a long hard writerly week (at least, that’s our story).

I finished the month in Paris, where I not only got to meet Alexa Bigwarfe, founder of Wome

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This was a fun read from start to finish. The premise: a vampire using a human to code the dating app was original and worked well. Ari and Brody are well-developed characters and the alternating chapters in their voices kept everything rattling alon ...more
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A snowed in hotel. No escape. A limited number of suspects. Overtones of Agatha Christie. The suspense keeps building. A great murder mystery with a wonderfully satisfying conclusion.
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Great start to a new series. Some warm, friendly characters. Lots of red herrings. The epitome for good cosy crime.
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Great start to the series. Some good characters that we will hopefully get to know in later books. And a wonderful setting.
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What's not to like? A good murder mystery; a spunky female detective; and a history lesson that doesn't feel at all like that. Loved it. ...more
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Fascinating. Some brilliant lists of foodstuffs. Great descriptions.
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Very complex and imaginative, so a bit difficult to read, but ultimately a good read.
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Terry wrote: "Hi Elizabeth! Thanks so much for adding your review for You Wish on here !! And welcome to Goodreads...!! :)"

Thanks Terry. It's all very new to me, but I think I'm getting the hang of it. Are you a librarian by any chance? I need to get an error corrected in the entry for 'Trifles' (name spelled incorrectly) but I don't seem able to do it myself - as the name is wrong, it's not recognising me as me!

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