Irene is a retired historian who grew up on a vineyard and orange orchard by the Murray River in New South Wales. She has picked grapes, driven a tractor, fed the chooks, and taken care of her younger brothers and sisters, among other things.
Now living in Western Australia, she has three children and four grandchildren, and a sister who beta reads her books for plot holes and to see how quickly she can solve the mystery. (So far, she’s not winning, which Irene finds rather pleasing but is carefully refraining from boasting, family relations being important after all.)
Irene writes historical mysteries. Her Emma Berry Mystery series is set in the 1870s-1880s among the Murray River paddle steamers, pastoral stations and townships.
Under her pen name Rennae Todd, she writes the Hettie & Ceefer Mysteries, a modern-day cozy series featuring a croquet playing schoolteacher and a black cat who knows more about what is going on than anyone.
When not writing, Irene reads, watches tennis, plays croquet (old age and treachery will defeat youth and enthusiasm every time) and has a reasonably green thumb, which means very little dies in her garden, unlike in her cozy mysteries.
Now living in Western Australia, she has three children and four grandchildren, and a sister who beta reads her books for plot holes and to see how quickly she can solve the mystery. (So far, she’s not winning, which Irene finds rather pleasing but is carefully refraining from boasting, family relations being important after all.)
Irene writes historical mysteries. Her Emma Berry Mystery series is set in the 1870s-1880s among the Murray River paddle steamers, pastoral stations and townships.
Under her pen name Rennae Todd, she writes the Hettie & Ceefer Mysteries, a modern-day cozy series featuring a croquet playing schoolteacher and a black cat who knows more about what is going on than anyone.
When not writing, Irene reads, watches tennis, plays croquet (old age and treachery will defeat youth and enthusiasm every time) and has a reasonably green thumb, which means very little dies in her garden, unlike in her cozy mysteries.
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