JOFFE BOOKS & SEVERN HOUSE PARTNERSHIP GOES FROM STRENGTH TO STRENGTH

Back in May we announced a new publishing partnership between Joffe Books and Severn House. The collaboration sought to bring together the best of both houses: the success and expertise in eBook publishing of Joffe Books and the long-established reputation of Severn House’s marvellous backlist. The partnership began with two of Severn House’s most popular series, Judith Cutler’s DS Kate Power series and the Alex Duggins series by New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Stella Cameron. After the astounding success of the first two series from Judith Cutler and Stella Cameron, we are delighted to announce that our partnership is still going strong and Joffe Books will be publishing more eBooks from the wonderful list of authors at Severn House.

Kick-starting the next round of eBook releases in our partnership we're going to be launching Cathy Ace, Margaret Mayhew and Jeanne M. Dams into the eBook stratosphere, starting with the first three in each of their respective series!

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

CATHY ACE: Cathy Ace’s Welsh Canadian criminal psychologist, and foodie, sleuth Cait Morgan encounters traditional, closed-circle whodunits around the world, while her WISE Enquiries Agency Mysteries feature a quartet of soft-boiled female PIs who solve quintessentially British cases from their office at a stately home in Wales. Her standalone novel of psychological suspense, The Wrong Boy, became an amazon #1 bestseller. Shortlisted for Canada’s Bony Blithe Award three times in four years, winning in 2015, she’s also won an IPPY Award and has been shortlisted for an Arthur Ellis Award. Cathy lives in Canada, having migrated from her native Wales aged 40.

MARGARET MAYHEW: Margaret Mayhew was born in London within the sound of Bow Bell and her earliest memories are of the German Blitz on the city. Her father was a pioneer heart surgeon at Guy’s Hospital and her mother was French. She was educated at Malvern Girls’ College and in Lausanne, Switzerland. She began writing short stories and novels in her mid-thirties and a number of her books are set in the Second World War. She has also written a series of six English village detective mysteries featuring a retired army Colonel as the investigator. Margaret is married to the American military aviation author, Philip Kaplan, and they live in Gloucestershire, England.

JEANNE M. DAMS: Jeanne was born and raised in South Bend, Indiana. She’s read English mysteries since she was a teenager and they bred in her a love of England that led to her first mystery series. Enter Dorothy Martin, who is essentially Jeanne’s alter-ago. The first book in the series, The Body in the Transept, won the Agatha award for Best First Novel of 1995, and Dorothy has gone on to many more adventures since.

Nina Taylor7 October 2020