Swansea born, where my mum's family live, we moved to Shropshire, my father's home county, when I was five. I studied English, French & German for a BA, University of London, and worked as a secretary in the West End until moving back to Shropshire to bring up a family. I have written for children, with stories broadcast on BBC TV's Playschool, and published three collections of crossword books before turning to crime. I have now published two novels, Death in the Physic Garden and Death in the Winter Garden, which feature my garden designer heroine, Fern Green, and are set in Shropshire and the Welsh borders. As well as my passion for gardening, I love crafts of all sorts, and I create templates for use with the Craft Robo and Cameo electronic cutters. Having rediscovered patchwork and quilting, I have a new series of cozy crime fiction, The Quilt Detective. Patchwork of Poison is the first in the series, with Motif for Murder due for publication shortly.