Month: June 2026

Pellerin Books Acquire The Amy Rowlings Series

June 22, 2026 / / 4 Comments

Hot News. I am delighted to finally be able to announce that I have signed a contract with Pellerin Books. 🙂 Pellerin will be republishing the entire Amy Rowlings series with new covers and, in some cases, new titles. I am also under contract to deliver two new books that will be published in 2027, one in May and one in September. I cannot put into words how delighted I am to have found such a forward-thinking publisher with such experienced owners, directors, marketers and editorial staff. Take a look at the website. These ladies have done it all with huge companies and are ready to do it all over again with Pellerin. I was particularly impressed with the way they treat their authors and I had a fantastic hour-long meeting with Laura, Jessica and Peyton who explained everything they had planned for Amy Rowlings on Google Meet a couple of weeks ago. What lovely people they are. I have known for a while now, and I’ve been bursting to tell you the good news. Murder Night will be our first collaboration. I am so excited about the future. This has been an incredible year so far. Official News Here.  https://pellerinbooks.com/pellerin-books-acquires-golden-age-inspired-historical-mystery-series-by-t-a-belshaw/

Murder Night. Amy Rowlings Mysteries Book 7 is back underway.

June 7, 2026 / / 3 Comments

HOT NEWS! I’m back in the chair for the first time in 15 months. Chapter 1 of Murder Night, book 7 in the Amy Rowlings Mystery Series is written. I’ve really surprised myself by managing to knock out just under 2000 words today. Good ones too. Chapter 2 will be where the murder actually happens. Hoping to get onto that tomorrow. The stories will be shorter in future, around 80 to 85k words instead of my usual 110k plus, so I might be able to get more books out in a shorter time… that’s the plan anyway, but we all know how my plans can go awry… still, it’s positive news

The Murder Awards Now in Audiobook

June 3, 2026 / / 0 Comments
The Murder Awards. Book 3 in the Amy Rowlings Golden Age Mystery Series is now available from all audiobook outlets, including Audible. Read by the wonderful Gemma Lawrence of Luther and Casualty fame, this fine actress really nails the Amy character.
May 1939:
When Amy Rowlings and Inspector Bodkin are invited to a black-tie civic awards ceremony at the Town Hall, they expect to be met with the usual boring speeches and toe-curling sycophancy, but when the recipient of the night’s ‘Businessman Of The Year Award’, Nelson Kelly, is found stabbed to death after being called from the stage to answer the telephone, the evening begins to liven up.
Nelson’s company has just won a lucrative contract to build a new armaments factory and many of the town’s elite, having backed a rival bidder, aren’t happy at missing out.
When the CID department at the local police station is suddenly reduced in manpower, Bodkin is told he will have to manage the murder investigation alone.
Into the breach steps young Amy Rowlings, the twenty-one-year-old with a mind every bit as sharp as her fictional hero, Hercule Poirot.
Amy, an avid crime fiction reader, movie buff and collector of American records, brings her insight and intelligence to the aid of the overstretched inspector as he attempts to find a way through the morass of lies, deception and corruption.
Once again, Amy must utilise all the investigative techniques she has learned from Agatha Christie’s famous detective to help bring a brutal killer to justice.

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