Category: Janie Juke

• Plenty of free stories to add to your TBR pile!

  And your chance to enjoy this tender story of family and friendship… …taking you back to the days when the kind embrace of community helped to ease troubled times… Divided we Fall ​’Divided we Fall’​ is the first in a series of six novellas, exploring how the townsfolk of the sleepy seaside resort of Tamarisk…

  Isabella Muir

  April 25, 2024

  crime fiction, family life, Janie Juke, mysteries, Second World War, social history, writing

• Janie Juke chega a Portugal, e não só!

  Durante o último ano, foi um privilégio ter tido a oportuindade de trabalhar com a maravilhosa tradutora Ana Catarina Palma Neves para fazer chegar os dois primeiros livros da série Mistérios em Sussex aos leitores de língua portuguesa. O Saco de Viagem e Perdidos e Achados desenrolam-se em Sussex, Inglaterra, no final da década de…

  Isabella Muir

  September 11, 2023

  Agatha Christie, crime fiction, family life, Janie Juke, mysteries, reading, sixties, social history, Sussex, translation

  cozy mysteries, fiction, mysteries, social history, suspense, swinging sixties, translation

• Add a journey in time to your holiday travels!

  The good news is that you can now find all my novels on Kindle Unlimited! So, if you are a KU subscriber, then you can immerse yourself in sixties crimes and mysteries for free! The Janie Juke mysteries The Tapestry Bag Lost Property​ The Invisible Case​ A Notable Omission The Giuseppe Bianchi mysteries ​Crossing the Line ​After…

  Isabella Muir

  August 15, 2023

  Child Migrants Trust, crime fiction, family life, Janie Juke, mysteries, reading, sixties, social history, Sussex

  cozy mysteries, fiction, Italy, mysteries, social history, swinging sixties

• Janie joins the seventies!

  

  With the publication of the latest novel in the Janie Juke series – A Notable Omission – we find Janie in the spring of 1970 exploring her new-found skills as an amateur sleuth. Once again she has local reporter, Libby Frobisher, by her side. Here’s a reminder of the story… Spring 1970. Sussex University is…

  Isabella Muir

  January 25, 2023

  crime fiction, family life, Janie Juke, mysteries, politics, seventies, social history

  cozy mysteries, equality, fiction, inspiration, mysteries, seventies, social history, suspense, women's rights

• Brand new!

  To celebrate the publication of a brand new novel in the Janie Juke Crime Mystery series (coming very soon!), the current series is available at a discounted price from now – right up until Christmas Eve! What’s more the series has some snappy new covers! And, as if that’s not enough fun for a pre-Christmas…

  Isabella Muir

  November 24, 2022

  Janie Juke, mysteries, sixties, writing

  cozy mysteries, discounts, fiction, mysteries, special offer, swinging sixties

• Agatha Christie and Janie Juke!

  In 1969 there was a young librarian who discovered that all the Agatha Christie novels she had read throughout her childhood could now be put to good use. Read on to find out more… Who is Janie Juke? Janie Juke is a young librarian, living in the fictional Sussex seaside town of Tamarisk Bay in…

  Isabella Muir

  September 15, 2019

  Agatha Christie, crime fiction, Janie Juke, mysteries, sixties, social history, Sussex, writing

  cozy mysteries, crime fiction, women sleuths

• Agatha Christie and Isabella Muir

  I read my first Agatha Christie novel when I was thirteen years old.  I don’t remember which one it was, but I do remember that it led me to read another and another. Like most authors I am a voracious reader.  Having worked my way through Agatha Christie’s crime fiction I moved on through other…

  Isabella Muir

  September 9, 2019

  Agatha Christie, crime fiction, Janie Juke, mysteries, research, sixties, social history, writing

  cosy mysteries, crime fiction, sixties

• Best-selling author of all time!

  Any guesses as to who is the most read author in the world? Well, according to a recent Wikipaedia article, it is Agatha Christie – who has estimated sales of between two and four billion!  Even beating the bard, William Shakespeare! Hercule Poirot appeared in 33 of her published ‘whodunits’ – which numbered 85 in…

  Isabella Muir

  September 2, 2018

  Agatha Christie, Janie Juke, mysteries, Sussex, writing

  cozy mysteries, family life, fiction, Italy, RAF, Second World War, social history, suspense, swinging sixties

• The Queen of Crime!

  

  On the 15th September 1890 Agatha Christie was born.  She started writing novels  in her early twenties and a hundred years later her books are still being read by millions! Among those readers is Janie Juke, young librarian and amateur sleuth, whose hero is Hercule Poirot.  Janie has made a name for herself in the…

  Isabella Muir

  September 1, 2018

  Agatha Christie, Janie Juke, mysteries, Sussex, writing

  fiction, Italy, RAF, reading, Second World War, suspense, swinging sixties

• Flying high

  It seems incredible to think that our Royal Air Force is one hundred years old.   It was back in 1918, on 1 April, when the Royal Air Force first formed as a separate service, independent of the British Army and the Royal Navy.  In fact, it was the first time that any country had…

  Isabella Muir

  July 10, 2018

  Agatha Christie, Janie Juke, mysteries, research, Sussex, writing

  cozy mysteries, fiction, inspiration, RAF, Second World War, suspense