Description: Frances Brody: author of the Kate Shackleton mysteries
Frances Brody comes from a great family of story tellers, though she's the first in the family to write professionally. "On the screen of my imagination," she says, "I can conjure aunts and uncles from years gone by, and the word pictures they painted of people from earlier generations."
Frances has been elected a member of the Detection Club .
She is the author of thirteen Kate Shackleton mysteries. Kate's thirteenth adventure, A Mansion for Murder , is now also available in the US (cover pictured right). Intrigued by a mysterious letter from a stranger offering important information, Private Investigator Kate Shackleton arrives in the mill village of Saltaire. At nearby Milner Field mansion, overshadowed by its reputation for misfortune and untimely deaths, she expects to meet the letter writer, Ronnie Creswell.