Maureen Jennings's Blog, page 9

The UK cover of No Known Grave

Here’s the big news about the broadcast of season 8

Be sure to tune in!!!!

Maureen is part of Canada’s Walk of Fame Festivities this year

On Monday, September 22nd @ 4:30 Maureen will be interviewed by Karen Gordon of The CBC and do a talk and reading about her work a the David Pecault Sqaure in Tooronto as part of the Canada’s Walk of fame series.

You can find all the details about the event  here

Hear all about the new season of Murdoch Mysteries, and that “Shipwreck”, adapted from the Novella by Maureen, will be an episode airing in 2015

Audition notice up for Death in a Black Suit - Premiering this Fall

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The Murdoch Mysteries television series celebrates the production of episode 100

After 8 years and 99 production episodes of the tv series, the 100th episode began filming this past week. Maureen attended a day with press and lots of hoopla on the set in Toronto. Congrats to Shaftesbury Films, CBC and CITY TV and all the crew and cast who have helped make Murdoch Mysteries a part of Canadian Television History.

Maureen sends out her congrats and as she would say:

“May we dance with  Murdoch for many more years to come!”

Murdoch Mysteries to begin airing on “DRAMA” which is”freeview” in the UK

Murdoch Mysteries will commence airing on “Drama” Sunday July 20 at 8 pm in the UK . This is located at number “20″ on the dial for all those living in the UK. This is the first time the show is airing outside the traditional Sky network and has a potential reach of 50 million households in the UK.

Link Drama for more info

Maureen is in the UK researching Book 4 in the DCI Tyler ww2 series

Here’s a great interview with Maureen in Shots Magazine. Link here to read

Next Instalment of the Murdoch Mysteries novels in Italy

Synopsis of “No Known Grave” - the 3rd DCI Tom Tyler mystery

Coming in October at bookstores everywhere in Canada, the US, and the UK

From the well-known author whose books inspired the wildly popular Murdoch Mysteries TV series, comes the third WWII-era DI Tom Tyler mystery; for fans of Foyle’s War, wartime dramas, and, of course, Maureen Jennings!

It’s summer, 1943, and after a tough couple of years, DI Tom Tyler is making a fresh start in Ludlow, Shropshire. On the outskirts of town, St. Anne’s Convalescent Hospital, staffed by nursing sisters who are Anglican nuns, has been established in an old manor house to help victims of the war to recover. After a horrifying double murder is discovered on the grounds, Tyler must figure out how the crime could have occurred in such a secluded and presumably impenetrable place, where most of the patients are unable to walk or are blind, or both, not to mention deeply traumatized.

To add to the puzzle, Tyler begins almost immediately to receive mysterious letters recounting terrible crimes far away. He realizes that he is not only seeking the murderer, but that the horrors of the war are closing in on this place that was meant to be a refuge.

Maureen Jennings, beloved author of the Murdoch novels that inspired the popular TV series (known as The Artful Detective in the US), surpasses herself in this vivid portrayal of wartime Britain, brilliantly blending a classic murder mystery with a deeply human story of how the effects of war live on far from the fields of battle.



Praise for Maureen Jennings’s Detective Inspector Tom Tyler series:

• “Amazingly vivid and terribly real.” New York Times Book Review

• “Another winner for Jennings. Fans of the Foyle’s War TV series should rejoice.” Globe and Mail

• “An extraordinary piece of storytelling.” Hamilton Spectator

• “Will appeal to the many readers who remain fascinated by the war that did indeed change the world.” Washington Times