Lindsay Ashford – författare

A unique collection of autobiographical writings about motherhood, penned by women from Wales. Funny, shocking and tender, it covers the whole spectrum of what it means to be a mother - from getting pregnant to the empty-nest syndrome. A young woman gets pregnant whilst technically still a virgin; a woman giving birth in a Belgian hospital finds her O level French is useless when questioned about her bowel movements - and a mother faces the reality of her son becoming a heroin addict. These are the untold stories of motherhood.

Investigative psychologist, Megan Rhys, is called in to help the police with the murder of a young mother who has been brutally killed and a pentagram carved in her forehead. While the media-obsessed police chief wants to call it a satanic ritual, Megan keeps an open mind and starts investigating the details of the victim's life - and the lives of the other victims as the murders increase. But then Megan makes a dangerous mistake herself...

Megan Rhys is due at a police conference on sex offenders - not a particularly nice subject, but at least it'll get her out of the office, where she can spend a few days at her grandmother's cottage in Borth. It turns out not to be quite the kind of break she was anticipating when a body turns up, miraculously preserved, in the bog behind the golf course. Is the mutilated bogman an ancient or modern relic of man's murderous instinct? Only time and the pathologits will tell, but not before Megan's forensic skills and her unerring gut instinct are tested to the limit...

The fourth book in the crime series featuring forensic psychologist Megan Rhys. In this volume, she is investingating the unusually high suicide rate among prisoners at the grim Victorian Balsall gate jail in Birmingham. While she is there, yet another death occurs. To the police, it is just another drug overdose. But Megan is not convinced and she suspects foul play. If her instinct is right, who did it? An inmate? A prison officer? Or someone from the outside? A worthy new talent.' - The Guardian on Lindsay Ashford'

This latest collection of short stories from Honno showcases a wide range of imaginative takes on what constitutes crime fiction. From bodies buried under the patio to old ladies with enviable inheritances, from a Chandleresque pastiche to police procedurals and fathers with an undue interest in their daughters, Welsh women writers prove themselves adept at taking an innovative sideways look at man's inhumanity to man - and, more especially, woman.

When Jane Austen dies at the age of just 41, Anne, governess to her brother, Edward Austen, is devastated and begins to suspect that someone might have wanted her out of the way. Now, 20 years on, she hopes that medical science might have progressed sufficiently to assess the one piece of evidence she has - a tainted lock of Jane's hair. Natural causes or murder? Even 20 years down the line, Anne is determined to get to the bottom of the mysterious death of the acclaimed Miss Austen.