About Us

About Us

The Blonde Plotters

We are the Blonde Plotters, three authors who have become great friends through our shared passion of writing. We like nothing better than just getting together and chatting about our latest work and favourite reads. We all have rescue fur-babies, Gwyn and Deborah have dogs and Kelly has cats.

About Kelly

About Kelly

Kelly Clayton is the author of the DCI Jack Le Claire mystery novels as well as thriller, Cyber Sisters. Kelly has also published historical romance, Fortunes Hostage.

About Debs

About Debs

Deborah is a USA Today bestseller of historical romances. She also writes contemporary romances as Georgina Troy, and psychological suspense as Ella Drummond.

About Gwyn

About Gwyn

Gwyn is an Amazon top ten bestselling author. She writes crime thrillers, including the DI Falle series and a new series launching in 2021, as well as emotional suspense novels.

Deadly Secrets

The small boat drifts gently down the river, twisting slowly with the current. Lying on the bottom, a still figure is dressed in midnight black robes, holding a single red rose in cold, pale hands… When two students at ancient Durham University make a gruesome discovery, Dr Harrison Lane, Head of the Ritualistic Behavioural Crime…

Beautiful Remains

Dawn creeps over the horizon, illuminating the body lying on the marshy ground. He looks peaceful, young, healthy. But there is no bloom of life in his cheeks, his eyes are cold and dead… When Head of the Ritualistic Behavioural Crime Unit, Dr Harrison Lane, is called to desolate Wicken Fen to assist with a…

Broken Angels

A breath of sky broke through the canopy of trees in the small clearing. A wooden cross had been pushed into the earth, and four candles surrounded the boy. He looked as if he was sleeping, but the rotting leaves upon which he lay were his grave. In the early hours, Head of the Ritualistic…

Innocent Dead

The curtains were closed and incense burned in a pottery jug. Brightly coloured cloth was draped over pictures on the wall. Out of a bag spilled stones, teeth, bones. Beside them were jars of herbs and ground powders. Was the person who lived here an innocent victim… or a killer? Harrison Lane, Head of the Ritualistic…

Perfect Beauties

She was lying across a granite rock surrounded by sea, posed on her side as though she was simply resting. She looked beautiful. Long blonde hair flowed beneath her, and a silvery tail glinted in the pale winter sun… When the news breaks that a mermaid has been found dead on a rock in the…

Captive Heart

Night was almost upon her, but the chill in the air wasn’t just a physical one. Although the stones were supposed to protect her family and the village, she’d always found the place creepy. It was as though silently standing among them were a thousand ghosts watching her, waiting for her to join them… When…

Winter Graves

There were three names written down, but the fourth was unknown. A name so painful that it had been scored through. A black scar where once the truth had been spelled out. The Reverend’s role had been clear, but for what he had done, he would have to suffer… When a vicar is reported missing…

Dark Whispers

This is the eighth book in the Dr Harrison Lane crime thriller mysteries, fast-paced crime suspense novels full of murder and intrigue, with a little romance and humour.

An Island at War

A moving historical novel inspired by the German occupation of the Channel Islands during WW2. This is a story of courage, resilience and everyday acts of defiance from ordinary people forced to live in an extraordinary time. June 1940 While her little sister Rosie is sent to the UK to keep her safe from the…

Mrs Boots Goes To War

The world is at war and her country needs her. When Florence’s son, John, announces that he has enlisted, she is horrified but determined to hold her family together during the oncoming hardships they are to face. Men are returning to England wounded, with many more not returning at all, families are struggling, and Florence’s…

Winter Whimsy

Escape this Christmas to the Boardwalk by the Sea, Book 3. Zip up your puffer coat, winter has arrived! When Lexi Davies discovers that her father has sold the fishermen’s cottages she runs as holiday lets and where she also lives, she is heartbroken. To make matters much worse, Oliver Whimsy arrives at the boardwalk and announces…

Mrs Boots of Pelham Street

A heartwarming and feel good historical novel perfect for fans of Mr Selfridge and Downton Abbey (Mrs Boots, Book 2) Behind every family there’s a strong woman holding them together. As the wife of esteemed businessman, Jesse Boot, Florence’s position in society is much changed from her quiet life as a shopkeeper’s assistant.  Now a…

Mrs Boots

Mrs Boots: A heartwarming, page-turner inspired by the true story of Florence Boot, the woman behind the Boots empire (Mrs Boots, Book 1) Jersey 1885. On the beautiful island of Jersey, Florence Rowe lives a quiet life working in her father’s bookshop.  Life for the Rowe family is good, but Florence can’t help yearning for…

Islands

Islands is an emotion charged story of love, regrets and loss, set against the real-life events of 2008 that shocked the beautiful island of Jersey. Katherine, is a successful business woman living and working in London. She’s estranged from her husband and family and hiding from the pain of failed motherhood. When a major murder…

The Darkest Summer

One hot summer, Dee disappeared. Now she’s back…but she’s not the girl you knew. Sera and Dee were the best of friends. Until the day that Dee and her brother Leo vanished from Sera’s life, during a long hot summer fifteen years ago. Now Sera is an adult, with her own child, five-year-old Katie, and…

The Villagers

Darkness Falls – Shadows KillAfter her husband is killed in an accident, Alison and her daughter, Sophie, move from London to a village in Dorset, and a fresh start.They thought they were getting a fresh start in the country… A beautiful house, garden, friends – an idyllic new life… But The Villagers are not all…

My Last Lie

New beginnings. Old secrets. Theo and Pilar. The perfect couple. Successful, beautiful and very much in love. Until a year ago – and the tragedy that nearly tore them apart. When their baby died, a part of them died with him. Now they’re trying to rebuild themselves, moving to a stunning house in rural Cornwall. But someone knows all their…

Fortune’s Hostage

England, 1813 Greed, deception and lust Miss Eloise Camarthon is in the midst of her first London Season, which has been delayed by several years due to the untimely death of her parents. No ordinary debutante, she wants to live her life on her own terms, as promised by her uncle, the Duke of Westbury…

The Poppy Field

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War. Young nurse, Gemma, is struggling with the traumas she has witnessed through her job in the NHS. Needing to escape from it all, Gemma agrees to help renovate a rundown farmhouse in Doullens, France, a town near the Somme. There, in…

Autumn Antics

Pull on your beanie, the fireworks are about to begin… Being a part-time hand model can be tricky, especially when you have to deal with prima donnas like Megan Knight, a reality star whose meteoric rise has surprised everyone. Bella is happiest running her tiny antique business from the front room of her cottage on the boardwalk. To…

Sally’s Story

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Home Help

Some families need more help than others… When a man is murdered in a London street by a Cobra bite, not surprisingly, the media are very interested. DI Claire Falle  is still struggling to deal with the consequences of her last case. When a clue comes up linking the man’s murder to her birth island…

Blood on the Rock

How do you stop a killer who has everything to lose? A man sits alone on his yacht, contemplating his good fortune as the sun slowly sets. But the past has a way of catching up with you. ˃˃˃ Can you ever turn back the clock? Sophie Ginelli has returned home, having fled Jersey a…

Summer Sundaes

Wipe off your flip flops, it’s going to be a bumpy ride. When Sacha Collins, cafe owner and sundae-maker extraordinaire, meets Italian archaeologist, Alessandro Salvatore in Rome, she’s grateful to him for being her tour guide. Now he’s turned up in the seaside village where she lives, known locally as The Boardwalk by the Sea…

Lonely Hearts

Meet Rachel, she loves animals and works at a dating agency, helping bring lonely people together – only somebody is watching her every move and she’s scared… Neil didn’t see who killed him – but his murder brings DI Clare Lawson on the case. What she uncovers leads her to discover a serial-killer is on…

Broken Faces

It’s 1914 and Lady Alexandra Baldwyn is stifled by her claustrophobic life of privilege at Somerton Hall. Desperate to be more than a debutante, she strives for excitement like her brother Charles and his best friend, Freddie Chevalier. She pleads with her parents to let her become a nurse in France, but when her father…

Blood Ties

Obsession, secrets, desire . . . and murder. A suspenseful mix of lies, lust, romance and murder set in the seemingly idyllic Channel Island of Jersey. DCI Jack Le Claire’s personal and professional lives overlap when a rich man’s party is interrupted by death. Le Claire’s investigations uncover a web of deceit and drag him…

Blood in the Sand

Be careful what you wish for, it just might come true. DCI Jack Le Claire has left London, the Metropolitan Police and, for the most part, his recent troubles far behind him. Returning home to Jersey in the Channel Islands, and bored of run-of-the-mill cases, Le Claire cannot help but miss his days at the…