Inspired by our friendship, our countless parenting fails, and lifelong passion for cosy crime, together wenwrite The AnonyMums book series where school mum friends unwittingly solve murders whilst navigating school politics and sleep deprivation. Our first book, A Bloody Merry Murder, has been long and shortlisted for several writing competitions (most notably the Crime Writers’ Association Emerging Author Dagger) and was published on September 25th 2025.
As proud amateur and pretty much self-trained authors, the written word has always been close to our hearts. From a young age, our true love has been crime fiction starting with the Famous Five and Nancy Drew, finding our idol in teenage years with Agatha Christie’s novels.
We met at work in 2011 and became firm friends when we got pregnant with our firstborns at the same time. We bonded over this body and soul knackering life changing experience but soon found we had many other things in common, the biggest one being the love of a good book (preferably of the murdery kind).
Our motherhood journey inspired us to write about the funny side of parenting struggles. The idea of a Thursday Murder Club meets Motherland soon became obvious to us and A Bloody Merry Murder was born (slowly with no pain relief or epidural).
