Jacqueline Beard is a writer and genealogist living in Gloucestershire but with an East Anglian ancestry going back to the 1500s. Author of the Lawrence Harpham Mysteries, she writes Victorian murder mysteries and is currently working on a new series set in Cornwall. Jacqueline’s books are a mixture of true crime and fiction. Her books are inspired by true crime, genealogy and newspaper reports. When Jacqueline is not writing or researching “dead people” as her husband so charmingly puts it, she can be found walking in the glorious Cotswolds. Jacqueline loves technology and spends far too much time on her computer. She dislikes flying, dentists and balloons – especially red ones.