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Katherine Stansfield

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Website

http://katherinestansfield.blogspot.co.uk/

Genre

Fiction, Historical Fiction, Poetry

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Daphne du Maurier, Helen Dunmore, Stevie Davies, Jem Poster ...more

Member Since

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Katherine Stansfield is a multi-genre novelist and poet who grew up on Bodmin Moor and now lives in Cardiff.

Her Cornish Mysteries crime series is set in the 1840s and features unorthodox detective duo Anna Drake and Shilly Williams. The pair investigate crimes based on real events in Cornish history and involve a good dash of local folklore. Think 'Sherlock Holmes meets the X Files meets Daphne du Maurier'.

Katherine is also one half of the writing partnership DK Fields, with her partner David Towsey. Head of Zeus will publish their political fantasy novel Widow’s Welcome, the first in The Tales of Fenest trilogy, in August 2019.

You can find Katherine on Twitter, @K_Stansfield, and keep up to date with events and new interviews via her web ...more

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	Falling Creatures 3.72 avg rating — 196 ratings — published 2017 — 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 Magpie Tree (Cornish Mysteries, 2) 3.36 avg rating — 135 ratings — published 2018 — 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 Visitor 4.19 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 2013 — 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 Mermaid's Call (Cornish Mysteries, 3) 3.76 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 2019 — 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
	Cast a Long Shadow: Welsh Women Writing Crime by Katherine Stansfield (Goodreads Author) (Editor ), Caroline Oakley (Editor), Kittie Belltree (Contributor ) 4.05 avg rating — 22 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
	Playing House 4.53 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	We Could Be Anywhere By Now 4.56 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2020 — 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 Ghastling: Book Twenty Two by Katherine Stansfield (Goodreads Author), Rebecca Parfitt (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.33 avg rating — 6 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
	The Ghastling: Book Nineteen by Katherine Stansfield (Goodreads Author), Rebecca Parfitt (Goodreads Author) (editor) 4.60 avg rating — 5 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
	Cast a Long Shadow by Katherine Stansfield (Goodreads Author), Caroline Oakley it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 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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The King's General

by Daphne du Maurier

bookshelves: historical-fiction, re-read, currently-reading

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Connections: Aspects of the History of North Cornwall

by Catherine Mary Lorigan

bookshelves: non-fiction, currently-reading

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Feb 22, 2026 04:53AM

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Unfinished Ode to Mud

by Francis Ponge

bookshelves: poetry, currently-reading

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