RJ Beynon
ALLi Author Member
Location: United Kingdom
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I am a storyteller whose career was launched when, at the age of seven, I contracted polio and struck a bargain with my hospital wardmates: they would strap the intricate brace I had to wear onto my leg – and I would tell them stories. Since then I’ve spent my life telling stories in countless forms as a journalist, and writing for the page and screen. I’ve written over 1200 scripts of drama and comedy, led dozens of writers’ rooms, and served as head writer on some of South Africa’s most popular soaps. I also established a writing school called All About Writing which has helped well over a thousand scribes to realise their writing dreams. For fifteen years I lived for months each year on my narrowboat, Patience, navigating the rivers and canals of England and Wales with my wife, Trish. We fetched up ultimately in a houseboat on a lake just off the River Great Ouse in Bedford, north of London which is where I've set the Jame Clatterbridge cosy mystery series. Our houseboat is at the end of the pontoon – and, like James, I drive a mobility scooter to make my way in the world.
RJ Beynon's books
Genres: Cosy Mystery, Crime, Mystery
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 18+
A WITTY BRITISH COSY MYSTERY WITH A DARK EDGE A body in the rhubarb patch was not part of the plan. James and Inky Clatterbridge have come to Abbey Marina in search of a quieter life. Their houseboat at No. 7, Pontoon Pike offers exactly what they’d hoped for: eccentric neighbours, evenings at The Heron, and the slow satisfactions of tending an allotment beside the river. Then Inky discovers a dead man half hidden beneath the rhubarb leaves. The victim – a rough sleeper known only as G – seemed to drift unnoticed around the marina community. But murder has a way of exposing the hidden currents beneath even the calmest waters. And when the police recover the apparent murder weapon – James’s missing dibber – suspicion begins to settle alarmingly close to home. The police believe the case is straightforward. But James, a writer of horror fiction with a...
Genres: Cosy Mystery, Crime, Mystery
Formats: Paperback
Age Groups: 18+
MEET JAMES CLATTERBRIDGE IN THIS DELIGHTFULLY WITTY INTRODUCTORY NOVELLA Small marina. Unexpected body. One very observant resident. There are worse places to live than Abbey Marina. The boats bob, the geese honk at all hours, and the neighbours know each other's business rather too well – which is generally a comfort, and occasionally a problem. It becomes a problem the evening James Clatterbridge – horror writer, houseboat dweller, and regular customer of the marina's fish and chip van – finds Molly Whitcombe dead beside her fryer. James gets around on a mobility scooter, which means he sees the marina at a particular pace, and notices rather more than people expect. There's a blackmail scheme nobody wants to discuss, a restaurateur with a grievance, and a handyman with a bone to pick. All he needs is a birthday party, a good bottle of wine, and the right moment to lay it...