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P. Thompson

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I came to cozy mystery writing through years of listening, in work that placed me alongside people during the most difficult moments of their lives — sitting with grief, navigating conflict, witnessing the complicated ways communities hold together and fall apart. That experience taught me something that shapes every book I write: people are rarely simple, motives are rarely clean, and the most interesting truths are usually the ones nobody is saying aloud.

I created Lucy Harford because I wanted to write mysteries where the puzzle is satisfying and the people caught up in it feel real. Lucy is a former police constable who left the force after a career-ending injury and now lives aboard her narrowboat The Curious Cat, painting watercolours
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Theatre Secrets is here

Theatre Secrets — the third Lucy Harford Narrowboat Mystery — is now available from Amazon here in ebook and paperback. A Victorian playhouse. An amateur dramatic company. A painter who sees more than she’s meant to. When former police constable turned narrowboat painter Lucy Harford moors The Curious Cat in the canal basin at Stavewell — accompanied, […]
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I enjoyed the book - a police procedural that isn't a police procedural. Kincaid is on holiday and he encounters and responds to the murders largely in his off duty mode with the help of on-duty Gemma. The time-share setting makes an atmo
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