Wendy Percival

Poor John Edworthy died aged only 12 years old, in a horrific accident. In my blog post last week, Churchyard Mysteries, I wrote about my discovery of three children's graves in the corner of a Devon churchyard where the wild daffodils grow. Since then I've learned what happened to one of them, John Edworthy, who died on 18th November 1889. Family John was the third son of Charles and Elizabeth (nee Ware) Edworthy. Charles was a thatcher and the family lived in a cottage adjo

Our local library was lucky enough recently to have a visit by crime fiction author, Kate Ellis. Her Wesley Peterson series is set in Devon, in the fictional town of Tradmouth, based on Dartmouth — a favourite place of mine and a location that Kate has visited many times over the years. Having read and enjoyed several of her Wesley Peterson novels, I went along to hear her talk. She spoke of how she'd always enjoyed mystery stories as a child and pointed to this as her inspir