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jam, tea and fangs.

Had interesting discussion with writer,friend who asked what I liked so much about crossing a whodunnit with a vampire touch. Well this is no Twilight I said. The story starts with a haughty aristocrat in the 1920's noticing her young attractive gardener. she laments that they can never be together. Their lives are so different. Not just because she is an aristocrat. But their lives entwine in an event that will catapault them to the present day when the slaying of an American business man brings them together after 83 years. I loved writing it because I love the theme of unrequited love, desire and mystery. The story is really a combination of all three. It is just so something I wanted to read I told my friend. In my world vampires cannot love,eachother, or at least desire gets in the way of that higher state of love. They thrive on hunger and their vampire needs which make them rather cold on the outside, but inside they are a boiling pot of emotion. I love the idea of an Agatha like whodunnit married with the comtemporary twist and feel that it is a great new genre that can be enjoyed by mystery lovers and paranormal fans alike. i wanted to re introduce the delicious fun of the whodunnit to a bigger audience while still not making it wildly gothic. I think the book has a cosy lightness of touch and is a great Sunday afternoon lazy read with a little vampire spice. I am so enjoying myself I have already nearly finished my next book in the series where Lavinia Cusworth and Jimmy Kaelly carry on their criminal investigations. the next one is set in a Vicarage which is typical of the English Villiage mystery genre except there are vampires abroad.

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