Wendy Percival

Recently I went to see The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society which was a delightful film and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Set shortly after WW2, it's a story of secrets, a missing person and traumatic past events, with an author as the central character. At the end of the film, I'd have been perfectly happy to go back inside the cinema and watch it all over again! The setting and scenery were beautiful, though I'm slightly biased as much of it was filmed in familiar loc

Whenever I meet readers of the Esme Quentin mysteries, they often talk about Esme’s character – why she does what she does, what drives her and how she goes about uncovering the truth in the stories. I decided to ask my Newsletter subscribers whether there were any questions they’d like to ask Esme directly and, if so, to send me their suggestions, which many of them did. The beach where Esme finds the fatally injured Bella Shaw The following scene is Esme’s response to some

As any family historian will agree, researching your ancestors is rather like being a detective following a trail of evidence to get to the truth. Not surprising then, that the intrigue of digging around in archives to unearth long buried secrets became the inspiration for my genealogy mysteries. Genealogy techniques and plotting. A mystery writer uses genealogy techniques to solve a fictional mystery in the same way as a family historian uncovers secrets about their ancestor