“A good mystery does more than entertain. It brings into sharp focus the conflicts that riddle our world and how they are dealt with by people just like you or I.
Authors such as John le Carre, Arnaldur Indridason and Maureen Jennings, to name just a few, provide readers with top-notch writing in this genre. It’s not just the suspense, the clues, the stakes or a carefully prepared atmosphere. It’s mostly the finely drawn, nuanced characters that keep one rivetted.”

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Maureen’s WW2 trilogy was sold today to Canadian Publishers Mcclelland and Stewart.
The first book in the trilogy, Season of Darkness, is set in Shropshire 1941, and deals with the suspicious death of a Land Army Girl near an internment camp on Prees Heath. The high stakes investigation opens doors into MI6, returning soldiers from Dunkirk, the internees held at the camp, as well as explosive secrets about a commanding and high ranking officer from Nazi Germany.
The book will be published in hardcover early 2011.
Book two will appear early 2012, is entitled “Beware This Boy”, and takes place later on in 1941 set in Birmingham UK around a munitions factory.
The final installment will be published (title tbd) in Spring 2013, and is set around a psychiatric hospital in Birmingham UK, 1942.
The first novel in the series, a police procedural, features DCI Tom Tyler.
The second and third novels in the series are stand alone thrillers, and feature characters that appear in the previous books.
Stay tuned for updates on this very exciting news.

The third season of Murdoch Mysteries premieres Sunday March 14 at 9:00pm ET/CT/PT (7pm MT) on Citytv. An encore presentation of Murdoch Mysteries will air Fridays at 9:00pm ET/PT (8pm CT, 10pm MT) starting March 19.

All seven books will be available in Kindle editions come May. Right now you can order Night’s Child, A Journeyman to Grief, and Under the Dragon’s Tail here

Link here to read a synopsis of the 13 new episodes of Murdoch Mysteries series three

Click on this link for the details and special previews

“Reinventing the Victorians”
4 MARCH 2010, Thursday 7 pm Room 244 East Accolades Building York University
Admission is free
Maureen Jennings is the inaugural speaker for the annual series entitled “Reinventing the Victorians” at York University. Invited by the Victorian Studies Network at York, an interdisciplinary association of faculty and graduate students, Maureen will discuss how she researches and recreates the Victorian era in her Detective Murdoch Mystery novels, with special attention to Vices of My Blood, a novel that faculty and students will be reading for the discussion.
Contact Tina for further info here

Thursday, APRIL 15 at 7.00- 8.30 p.m. Reading and talk at Long Branch Library, 3500 Lakeshore Bvld.

Thursday, APRIL 22. 2-3 p.m. Talk at Wychwood Library, 1431 Bathurst st.

Wednesday, APRIL 28 6.30-8.00 p.m at Reading and talk at Danforth/Coxwell Library, 1675 Danforth Rd .

MAY 9th 2010 @ 2:00 pm
Mother’s Day Historical Mysteries Event
Aunt Agatha’s Mystery Book Store
213 South Fourth Avenue
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104
734.769.1114
email here for further info

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and order here for North America

Bestselling Canadian author Peter Robinson once again delivers a special treat for crime fiction lovers: a compilation of outstanding contemporary crime writing from the English-speaking world. With a selection of fifteen stories featuring established writers and new voices, The Penguin Book of Crime Stories Volume II is a rich source of literary menace, psychological insight, and roaring plot. This collection includes riveting stories by Lee Child, John Connolly, Colin Cotterill, Jeffrey Deaver, Sue Grafton, Sophie Hannah, Reginald Hill, Maureen Jennings, and Ruth Rendell. The stories are selected and introduced by Peter Robinson
Link here to place an order