A lifelong reader of sleuths like Sherlock Holmes and Father Brown, Kate loves travelling, has lived in many different towns, cities, and rural retreats on three continents, and is settled happily in a remote seaside resort in gorgeous Devon, England. Everyone is so friendly and easy going, it’s like living in a time-warp!
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 school teacher whose hometown is Glasgow as it was in the 1970s.
"Death in Paris" is Kate's first completed work of prose fiction. The idea for the whole Màiri Maguire series, and the spin-off Major Peverel series, came to her complete on a winter's afternoon. At the time Kate was working on "The Belle of Bow Street", a much longer novel with political and philosophical overtones, set in 1812 and depth researched, which is additionally a fun mystery masquerade. Màiri took over and poor Belle has been sadly neglected ever since, although as soon as the next 12 Màiri adventures and Morag's Cookbook are written, Kate intends to work on the Belle books again. Kate is also working on an ecological thriller; a middle grade quartet of books about marginalised disabled kids caring for and "saving" the environment; a YA fantasy trilogy; and is about to start uploading to Vella a serial, Found Money, which is a comic caper centering on her fav character - the lovely, ditsy, Erin - who sails oblivious through spine-chilling danger to find true love with a Scotland Yard detective.
