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Forensic psychologist Jill Kennedy has given up police work for a quiet life in the Lancashire village of Kelton Bridge. But when Martin Hayden, a seventeen-year-old schoolboy, is murdered, DCI Max Trentham, Jill’s ex-colleague, wants her back at work. As they hunt Martin’s killer, they discover that nothing is as it seems. When the killer strikes again, Jill and Max find themselves in a desperate Shirley Wells lives in Lancashire, United Kingdom. She has published twelve novels, of which the most recent is Into the Shadows, the first novel in the Jill Kennedy and DCI Max Trentham series.



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Shirley Wells

Shirley was born and raised in the Cotswolds, where her headmaster wrote on her school report - Shirley is content to dream her life away.

Years later - as an adult living in Cyprus - it dawned on her that this wasn't necessarily a bad thing and that fellow dreamers, in the guise of fiction writers, had been getting away with it for centuries.

A move to the Orkney island of Hoy followed and, during the twelve years she spent there, she wrote short stories as well as full-length romantic fiction for UK women's magazines.

She's now settled in Lancashire, where the Pennines provide the inspiration and setting for her popular mystery novels. She and her husband share their home with an ever-changing selection of deranged pets, who often insist on cameo roles in Shirley's novels.

When she isn't writing, Shirley loves reading (anything and everything) , listening to live music, watching TV, eating chocolate and drinking whisky - though not necessarily at the same time. She's also a season ticket holder at Burnley Football Club and can often be seen in the biting wind and pouring rain cheering on her favourite team.

And she's still content to dream her life away.



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