Today I am so pleased to welcome Charlie Cochrane to Joyfully Jay. Charlie has come to talk to us about her series, the Cambridge Fellows mysteries. She has also brought along a book to give away. Please join me in giving her a big welcome!

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I’m delighted to be here again today to celebrate the relaunch of the first Cambridge Fellows romantic mystery books. (Think Oscar Wilde meets Agatha Christie?) These are now being rolled out by Endeavour Press.

For any celebration there should be presents, so I have a giveaway to offer, but I also bring something special, which are poems to my romantic lead, Jonty Stewart, ‘from his mother’. They very much reflect the emotional journey which this series of books details. I wrote them for mothering Sunday many years ago so it seemed appropriate to relaunch them here today, too!

 

To Jonty, aged 4

I wish you joy, my golden child, laughter and happiness and length of days.

I wish you sunshine, in skies as blue as your eyes. Snow to play in, wind to fly kites, mud and grass and cold salt sea.

I wish you someone at your side to share them all.

 

To Jonty, aged 14

I wish you strength to fight whatever ails you, my boy who once laughed so readily.

I wish you courage to share it; with someone, if not with us.

I wish you the return of your smile.

 

To Jonty, aged 24

I wish you a sense of direction, my lad, a new beginning.

I wish you a companion to share the journey, a hand at your elbow and a smile at your side.

I wish you someone for whom you are the whole world, but who’d never make you aware of the fact.

 

To Jonty, aged 34

What do I have left to wish you?

I wish you health and length of days, of course, a warm hearth and a table set with food.

But you have all that any man could desire, in the person who sits in the chair beside yours.


Bio

Because Charlie Cochrane couldn’t be trusted to do any of her jobs of choice—like managing a rugby team—she writes. Her mystery novels include the Edwardian era Cambridge Fellows series, and the contemporary Lindenshaw Mysteries. Multi-published, she has titles with Carina, Riptide, Lethe and Bold Strokes, among others.

A member of the Romantic Novelists’ Association, Mystery People and International Thriller Writers Inc, Charlie regularly appears at literary festivals and at reader and author conferences with The Deadly Dames.


Giveaway

Charlie has brought a an ebook from her backlist to give away to one lucky reader. Just leave a comment at the end of the post to enter. The contest ends on Tuesday, November 14th at 11:59 pm ET.

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