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PJ Quinn is a collaboration between published novelist and poet, Pauline Kirk, and her lawyer daughter Jo Summers.
When Pauline started suffering from 'writer's block', Jo challenged her to write a crime novel. A good old fashioned 'who dunnit', with interesting characters and a great plot. Then somehow Jo found herself co-writing with Pauline and the rest, as they say, is history.
Enter DI Ambrose, a gentle giant of a police detective, and his colleagues DS Winters, WPC Meadows and others at the Chalk Heath police station. The first novel 'Foul Play' was published in 2011. 'Poison Pen' came out in 2012 and was followed by 'Close Disharmony' in 2014. The fourth novel, 'Poetic Justice' was published in 2018.
A new, expanded edition of 'Foul Play' appeared in 2020, including additional chapters about WPC Meadows and PC Sutton. Second printings of 'Poison Pen' and 'Close Disharmony' were also published in 2020. Jo and Pauline have now completed the fifth novel is the series, 'Skull Days', which is planned for publication in Autumn of this year (2023). Progress was initially hampered by the difficulty of meeting during the Pandemic. The occasional Zoom session helped!
***HOT NEWS***
The latest in the DI Ambrose Mysteries, Skull Days, is coming out soon. Publication is planned by Stairwell Books for October 2023.
Skull Days follows the recently promoted DCI Ambrose and DI Winters, and their new specialist Serious Crime Team. At Ambrose's request this includes a woman police officer, WPC Meadows. It is 1960. The sixties have begun to swing and organised crime is moving into their patch. The boss' daughter has gone missing and pressure is put on the team to help find her. When a skull is found in the grounds of an exclusive school in a nearby village, things become even more complicated. Ambrose must ask WPC Meadows to take on duties not normally expected of a woman police officer. His long hours are causing tensions at home, too.
Will he find the boss' daughter whilst saving the locals from a new extortion racket? And is he right to suspect that an apparent accident was foul play?
The story is partly set in 1960s York and the fictional towns of Jenners' Park and Chalk Heath.
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