Since returning to the country after living in London for thirty-six years, I have written a series of ten novels called, The Sisters of Wartime England.

First in the series is Foxden Acres, Bess Dudley’s story. In Foxden Acres, we meet Bess’s sisters, Margot, Claire and Ena. Bess Dudley is a teacher in London. When the children she teaches are evacuated, she returns to Foxden to organise a troop of Land Girls. Traditional barriers come crashing down when Flying Officer James Foxden, heir to the Foxden Estate, falls in love with Bess. Bess, who has always loved James, has a shameful secret that she has vowed to keep from James at any cost. 

     Destiny, the second book in the series, is Margot Dudley’s story. Margot is married in Foxden Acres and moves to London with her husband. In Destiny, set in a West End theatre, ambitious Margot climbs the career ladder from usherette to leading lady – and risks losing everything she loves.

     In Betrayal, Claire Dudley joins the WAAF, excels in languages and is recruited by the SOE. Code name, China Blue, Claire is sent to occupied France to work with the Resistance. Against SOE rules Clarie falls in love. When her lover falls into the hands of the Gestapo, Claire is made to turn her back on him to save herself and her comrades. As the war reaches its climax, Claire fears she will never see the man she loves again.

     Redemption is Ena’s story. Ena is the youngest of the Dudley sisters and works in an engineering factory. She makes discs and dials bound for a place known only as, Station X. When Coventry is bombed, Ena is charged with taking her work to Bletchley Park by train. On the 9:45 to Bletchley, Ena is drugged, her work is stolen, and she is accused of sabotage.

     Legacy, set in post-war Leicestershire, brings the Dudley sisters together again when a Nazi who abused Bess in Foxden Acres turns up uninvited and threatens Bess during the opening of Foxden Hotel on New Year’s Eve. Threaten one Dudley sister, and you had better be prepared to take on all four. Legacy is a standalone sequel to Foxden Acres.

     Reckoning is a post-war crime thriller. After receiving treatment for shell shock in Canada, Claire’s husband disappears. Has he left her for the woman he talks about in his sleep, or is he on the run from accusations of wartime treachery? Claire goes to France in search of the truth, aided by old friends from the Resistance.

     Confessions. London, 1958. Ena sees a woman she exposed as a spy in WW2. But can it be her? Ena went to her funeral twelve years before. Now head of the Home Office cold case department, Ena investigates. She finds documents from Berlin in 1936 that involve someone much more important, someone above suspicion, someone who works with her.

     Secrets follows Confessions. About to expose a colleague of her husband, Henry, as the mole at MI5, Special Branch abducts Henry and Ena is thrown into a murder case. Close to finding the real murderer, Ena is suspended from her job and the investigation is blocked by Special Branch. Help comes from an untrustworthy character. A deal is agreed: A ticket to Austria in return for the names of the mole’s associates and the proof that Henry is innocent. The catch? Ena must accompany the character to Austria as insurance.

Obsessions is a Dudley Green Investigation. Sick of working in a world of spies and bureaucracy, Ena Green, nee Dudley, resigns from the Home Office and starts her own investigating agency.  Working for herself she can choose which investigations to take, and more importantly, which to turn down. While working on two investigations, Ena is called as a prosecution witness in the Old Bailey trial of a cold-blooded killer who she exposed as a spy the year before.  Obsessions is a stand-alone sequel to Confessions.

Justice, is the last in the series, so far. In 1960, Rupert Highsmith, lover of Ena’s associate Artie Mallory, receives anonymous letters and compromising photographs taken twenty-four years earlier in Berlin.  While researching the parentage of a young woman claiming to be the daughter of her friend, Priscilla Galbraith, Highsmith is almost killed in a hit and run. The investigation takes Ena to Shetland, where she learns that the would-be assassin of Highsmith (and PM Stanly Baldwin in 1936) is dead.  Who wants to kill Highsmith? And, is the girl who says she’s Priscilla’s daughter the child that was stolen nineteen years ago?        

I am currently writing a stand-alone sequel to Destiny called TRIBUTE, A Bitter Sweet Celebration, and making notes to write my memoirs.