I trust that you will enjoy browsing my work. Please come back often. I have written full length novels and short stories about murder, the most popular of lounge crimes. If you enjoy solving a mystery then my novels are for you. I will not hide any information from you, so if you pick up all the clues and avoid the red herrings then you will be ready to announce the murderer, or is it murderers, before my detective. Good luck with your detecting and enjoy your reading.
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Your can learn more about the novels Grace Tremayne and even read the first two chapters by clicking on the links at the left hand side of the page.
Cornwall on the Rocks, my first novel, is now being read on four continents. It tells the story of a teenage party in a lighthouse on an isthmus cut off by the tide. It introduces Sven Ffolkes, a Norwegian detective with an acute knowledge of the British way, who is working on secondment with the Cornish police.
Out of a Clear Blue Sky also featuring Sven Ffolkes, working for NATO to investigate the murder of a retired SAS officer in his Oxfordshire home.
My third novel, which I am writing currently describes Sven's first case, which he tackles while still a student studying criminology and on an exchange year at the University of York.
Short Story
Sinister Plot is a short story about the death of a local community activist in a village outside Oxford. It is available by clicking on the link to the left. It offers an introduction to my work for those that do not wish to tackle a full novel right away. If you read it would you please send a donation to the RNLI. Sinister Plot is the copyright of Grace Tremayne, so if you read it anywhere else or see it, or something similar, on television will you please tell me.
Poetry
Yes, I write poetry as well as novels, but only when I feel stimulated to set down thoughts on a subject for which I have a deep passion. If you would like to read a sample of my poetry, then please click on the link Goona. Goona was our pet cat, who lived with us for six years before she died of cancer. As fellow fans will probably realise, she was named by an Arsenal supporter before we got her and would not answer to any other name. It is probably fortunate that I too am an Arsenal supporter. She was the inspiration for Topsy, the cat in Cornwall on the Rocks. If you are a cat lover and especially if you met her, then I know that you will understand what I have written and why I wrote it.
Grace Tremayne
I was born in a West London suburb in 1949, the younger child of a Telephone Manager and a Schoolteacher. I attended a local grammar school and then went on to the University of Bristol, where I qualified with a BSc honours in Chemistry, before starting a career in the electroplating industry. From there came a move into the IT sector, where I have spent the majority of a working life, obtaining an MSc in Computer Science on the way. I still work in IT, now specialising in selling services that help our client do business better. But that is probably not why you are reading my website. Writing as Grace Tremayne, I seek to combine my extensive industrial experience with devious plots, cynicism and a wicked sense of humour to provide my readers with all the clues that they need to solve the crimes whilst providing some amusing observations on life and business on the way. To find out a little more, then please read my interview.
Shadow Mysteries
How do you fancy a evening with friends and a bit extra, specifically a murder or two, thrown in. Shadow Mysteries is where the novels of Grace Tremayne originated. So if you do not have the time or inclination to read the books why not try an evening's detecting. All the details that you need are available on the Shadow Mysteries web site.
Grace Tremayne is a member of the Crime Writers' Guild