Donna Moore was born in 1962 and led a sheltered childhood in a small English village. A crime fiction fan from a young age, Donna wanted to be one of Enid Blyton's Famous Five and fight crime with the aid of only a basket of cucumber sandwiches and a bottle of ginger beer. She spent her spare time following mysterious strangers around the village - especially those with cockney accents and a couple of days' growth of stubble - until a complaint from the new local vicar put a stop to her sleuthing career.

'Britain's retirement villages are evidently chock full of feisty pensioners ready to solve crimes at the drop of a hat. Or, in this case, commit them. Janus Lodge is under threat of closure, as a Glasgow gangster threatens to redevelop it. The residents' only chance is to buy the place themselves, so they set up a business knitting designer fetish wear. It all adds up to an unlikely but thoroughly enjoyable halfway house between Richard Osman and Irvine Welsh.' Mail on Sunday