Fliss Chester

Fliss Chester lives in a little village in West Sussex, and writes witty, fast-paced cozy crime. When she is not killing people off in her modern and historical whodunnits, she helps her husband, who is a wine merchant, run their family business. This means she's never far from a decent glass of something, which makes her very happy indeed.

The current series that Fliss is working on is the Maddie Penrose Mysteries. This limited three-book series features teashop owner Maddie Penrose, and her grandmother Nor, who make the perfect - if eccentric - sleuthing team. The adventures starts when dripping blood is mistaken for strawberry jam in the first book, and only Maddie can unravel the recipe for murder. If you love Cornwall, cream teas and curious mysteries, then you'll love these classic cozy crime mysteries.

Fliss's longest-running series features the Hon Cressida Fawcett. Our heroine, Cressida, is a fun-loving heiress in 1920s England - though when she's not propping up the cocktail bar at The Savoy, she's helping people with their interior decorating projects. Through her love of decorating, and the fact she keeps tripping over dead bodies, she realises that her eye for design means she has an eye for a crime too. Why not pick up the series with the first book, Death Among the Diamonds, and join Cressida for a martini and a murder!

Before writing her three cozy crime series, she wrote fun and flirty romances - the sort of thing that might make your mother blush. Not hers though, as it was her mother who always encouraged her to be 'anything you want, darling, as long as it's not dull'. Hopefully readers will attest to the fact that whether it's death by cyanide or a smooch in a hot tub, there's nothing dull about Fliss's books.