Murder at the Spring Ball: A 1920s Mystery

by Benedict Brown

  I’m a Welsh-Irish-Englishman originally from South London but now living with my French/Spanish wife and presumably quite confused infant daughter in Burgos, a beautiful mediaeval city in the north of Spain. I write overlooking the Castilian countryside, trying not to be distracted by the vultures, hawks and red kites that fly past my window each day.

  When Covid 19 hit in 2020, the language school where I worked as an English teacher closed down and I became a full-time writer. I have two murder mystery series. There are already six books written in The Izzy Palmer Mysteries which is a more modern, zany take on the genre. I will continue to alternate releases between Izzy and Lord Edgington. I hope to release at least ten books in each series.

  I previously spent years focussing on kids’ books and wrote everything from fairy tales to environmental dystopian fantasies, right through to issue-based teen fiction. My book The Princess and The Peach was long-listed for the Chicken House prize in The Times and an American producer even talked about adapting it into a film. I’ll be slowly publishing those books over the next year whenever we find the time.

  “Murder at the Spring Ball” is the first book in the “Lord Edgington Investigates…” series. I’m about to start work on the second novel and there’s a novella available free if you sign up to my reader’s club. If you feel like telling me what you think about Chrissy and his grandfather, my writing or the world at large, I’d love to hear from you, so feel free to get in touch via...

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