Now settled happily in coastal Devon, Kate combines her lifelong love of reading Cozy Sleuths with many years spent living in foreign climes to write Travel Cozies.
The colossal sense of community in the hamlets of Devon took Kate back in spirit to the Glasgow of her childhood, and that's how Màiri was born. Màiri is a Scots Irish teacher whose home is Glasgow as it was in the 1970s, a time and place Kate fondly remembers.
In Britain, the decade of the 1970s was an era of huge ideological change. The world was opening up and class barriers were vanishing. It was an exciting time to be a woman, a time of vast opportunity. Kate hopes to bring a bit of that excitement to her readers, with a soupcon of women's lives during that epoch of upheaval, together with a little of the culture of Europe; all wrapped up in fun, frothy, fast-paced Cozy Mysteries, with just enough clues and twists to keep you guessing until the end.
Two times winner of the Incipere award for Best Christian Fiction, two times Indie Spotlighted by Publishers Weekly, 2022 winner of the Readers Favorite Gold Medal for Humor, and of 15 other international book awards, Kate hopes that her readers will get as much pleasure from reading about Màiri Maguire's adventures as she gets from reading Sherlock Holmes, Father Brown, and the Perils of Pauline.
For those who prefer inspirational stories, Kate has recently launched Sweets by The Sea, a series of Second Chance for Lasting Love novels that combine the themes of forgiveness, redemption and recovery, set in sleepy Welcombe Bay on the gorgeous Devon coastline, which her readers say is even sweeter than her Cozies.
The colossal sense of community in the hamlets of Devon took Kate back in spirit to the Glasgow of her childhood, and that's how Màiri was born. Màiri is a Scots Irish teacher whose home is Glasgow as it was in the 1970s, a time and place Kate fondly remembers.
In Britain, the decade of the 1970s was an era of huge ideological change. The world was opening up and class barriers were vanishing. It was an exciting time to be a woman, a time of vast opportunity. Kate hopes to bring a bit of that excitement to her readers, with a soupcon of women's lives during that epoch of upheaval, together with a little of the culture of Europe; all wrapped up in fun, frothy, fast-paced Cozy Mysteries, with just enough clues and twists to keep you guessing until the end.
Two times winner of the Incipere award for Best Christian Fiction, two times Indie Spotlighted by Publishers Weekly, 2022 winner of the Readers Favorite Gold Medal for Humor, and of 15 other international book awards, Kate hopes that her readers will get as much pleasure from reading about Màiri Maguire's adventures as she gets from reading Sherlock Holmes, Father Brown, and the Perils of Pauline.
For those who prefer inspirational stories, Kate has recently launched Sweets by The Sea, a series of Second Chance for Lasting Love novels that combine the themes of forgiveness, redemption and recovery, set in sleepy Welcombe Bay on the gorgeous Devon coastline, which her readers say is even sweeter than her Cozies.
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