Utterly Explosive is now available as an audiobook.

Utterly Explosive is now available as an audiobook.

I have found a fantastic narrator in Andy Deane. He is a local (Suffolk based) actor with the QuirkHouse Theatre Co based in Bury St Edmunds.

Not surprisingly for a book set in Suffolk, one or two of the characters speak with a local accent and Andy's soft Suffolk accent is excellent easy listening. 

With a word like Explosive in the title the action is bound to kick off. When it does, Andy happily adds some fun with the accents of the hot Romanian fruit picker, a smooth-talking Polish fruit farm manager and a threatening Bulgarian thug.

Andy's versatility is great to listen to, as he brings Utterly Explosive to life. He effortlessly changes from his warmly narrated English into the voices of the characters.

Utterly Explosive is now available on Amazon, Audible and iTunes 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Pauline-Manders/e/B008A4H5LK

It was great fun to take part in the first Bury St Edmunds Literature Festival.

The 'Writers Cafe' Event

On Wednesday 25th October 2017....

The first 'Writers Cafe' event was held at Oakes Barn on the first day of the first Bury St Edmunds Literature Festival... 3 firsts in one day! Local writers - professional, published, self-published and aspiring, came along to meet peers and public to share work.

It was great fun mingling and networking with local authors and readers at this busy, well organised but informal and friendly venue. Bury St Edmunds Literature Festival Facebook page

Artist who designs Utterly crime series covers has one of her pastels selected for 2017 Pastel Society Exhibition.

Rebecca Moss Guyver has one of her pastels selected for 2017 Pastel Society Exhibition at the Mall Galleries in London.

Red Haw Apples - Artist Rebecca Moss Guyver

Rebecca is the artist who designs the book covers for my Utterly Crime Series. 

Red Haw Apples (this isn't one of my book covers) will be part of the Pastel Society Exhibition at the Mall Galleries from 

21st February to 4th March 2017. 

I've always known that Rebecca is a talented artist - but isn't it nice that the Pastel Society has selected one of her pastels for exhibition. Rebecca's website

Jumping stilts and Utterly Crushed

Jumping Stilts and Utterly Crushed

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Plots, counter-plots....

 

Otto isn't too sure what it all means.  It is obvious he doesn't quite 'get' what a jumping stilt is, although he stayed around long enough for a couple of promotional photos.

So how do jumping stilts fit into the latest Utterly crime novel? In Utterly Crushed, you'll read about film sets, intrigue, murder, a crushing death and... oh yes, jumping stilts - all set in Suffolk.

Otto and I have worked to infuse a sense of threat and foreboding into the photos - something appropriate for a crime novel. Otto had no problem with that emotion when he saw the stilt - I had more of a problem creating the feel with shutter speed, lighting etc. Luckily it's amazing what you can do with an automatic camera!
For more information about Utterly Crushed visit - http://paulinemanders.com/

Utterly Crushed - a sixth novel in the Utterly crime series is available in time for Christmas.

Another Fantastic Book Cover Design from 

Rebecca Moss Guyver

The plot: As the summer of 2012 draws to a close, the Olympic goodwill sweeping Suffolk can't last. Murder is in the air. A brooding menace takes hold of a film production near Stowmarket. Lives are put at risk and Nick the on-set carpenter, is blamed. Chrissie, an old colleague helps out.

Networks of deceit are uncovered by Matt, a part-time internet people-tracer, as a memorabilia scam unfolds. Former students, bound by connections to Utterly Academy come together - one of the four dies. Nick finds himself in the frame again and a murder quickly follows. DI Clive Merry discovers that "crush" can take on a whole new meaning for his witnesses. 

The action moves across East Anglia, from Stowmarket & Diss to Aldeburgh & Orford Ness; Bury St Edmunds to Grundisburgh & Ipswich.

Utterly Crushed is available in paperback and ebook from Amazon Amazon - Pauline Manders 

and in local bookshops - see paulinemanders.com  

Waterstones Buttermarket branch, Bury st Edmunds

Waterstones, 6th August 2016

Guess where I will be from 10:30am on 6th August 2016

Guess where I will be from 10:30 am on Saturday, the 6th August. My four legged friend holds the answer - Waterstones - although he is utterly confused because he thinks the notice says Water bones.

Book signing and meet the author event.

I am looking forward to signing my Utterly Crime novels and the 'meet the author' event in Waterstones, featuring all the books from my Utterly Crime Series - set in Suffolk.
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facebook.com/WaterstonesBuryStEdmunds  facebook.com/paulinemanders/authorpage

Crime novels set in Suffolk. Visit the Felixstowe Book Festival.

Utterly Crime Novels - Set in Suffolk - The Felixstowe Book Festival 2016

I am really excited about the Felixstowe Book Festival later this month. I shall be there, alongside fellow authors Rosy Thornton and Mary Powles, and we shall be talking about our novels and how Suffolk has influenced or lent itself to our different genres and writing styles.  

Set in Suffolk - (Sunday 26th June at 1:30pm.) 

Find out more about us, the festival and 'Set in Suffolk'. 

 http://felixstowebookfestival.co.uk/3375/set-in-suffolk-a-preview

I hitched a flight to take some promotional photos in an attempt to inspire readers to visit Felixstowe and the Book Festival.

This is Alpha Zulu, a Piper Arrow with Attitude.... 

Alpha Zulu coming in to land with... not a lot of Altitude. (I was on board!)

 This an Aerial Shot of Felixstowe through the cockpit....

 

I hope you can understand why I shall be describing how The Utterly Crime Series has been inspired by, and infused with 'Suffolk'.

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Great News - my Utterly Crime novels are issuing well in Suffolk Libraries

Visit the Suffolk Libraries website and read the webpage interview:

http://suffolklibraries.co.uk/interviews/meet-the-author-pauline-manders 

It was great fun to visit Woodbridge library this week for a book signing / meet the author event with my latest Utterly crime novel, Utterly Knotted. Of course I had some help from my dog with the seasonal book promotion beforehand....

Otto wasn't too sure about the Christmas robin!

To find out more about Utterly Knotted, visit my website:
paulinemanders.com 

Latest Utterly Crime novel released and Live on Amazon

Utterly Knotted is Live on Amazon

This is the fifth novel in the Utterly Crime Series - Suffolk based. Like all the previous books in the series, it stands alone, but is also part of a sequence - because time moves on!

I have enjoyed planning this book and feel, along with Utterly Reclaimed, that Matt's move from carpentry to computing & IT made it more fun to write.

The Plot - Knotweed is ugly - and so is murder in Suffolk. A body is found near a railway line in Needham Market while Nick, a carpentry apprentice gets wasted at a gig miles away in Rattlesden.

Chrissie, Matt and Nick, friends since their Utterly Academy days, follow trails stretching from Bury St Edmunds to Woodbridge and Felixstowe, and discover murky secrets from an abusive past.

Throw into the mix a turkey farm, winery and a French flea market pot and you have the recipe for a perfect murder.

Cover design by Rebecca Moss Guyver.

Visit my website to learn more: paulinemanders.com or Amazon Pauline Manders Author page: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pauline-Manders/e/B008A4H5LK?ref_=nav_signin& 

Pauline Manders website

Pauline Manders Website

I have been busy constructing a website - paulinemanders.com

But - my approach needed some computer skills - brilliantly provided by Hamish Drewry of CB4 Solutions Ltd.

So please visit my website paulinemanders.com and learn even more about my Suffolk crime novels -

Utterly Explosive

Utterly Fuelled

Utterly Rafted

Utterly Reclaimed

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UTTERLY FUN to be interviewed for CHOICES, the Suffolk Lifestyle Magazine

Utterly Fun - Photos being taken for CHOICES, the Suffolk Lifestyle Magazine. A few steps back, and I'll be in the pond!

When Hayley Charman, Editor of Choices came to my home to interview me in May, I wasn't sure if the thrust of her article would be about lifestyle choices such as crime (crime fiction as in my Utterly crime series) or becoming an author! Rest assured - it was about taking up writing and becoming an author.

It would take up too much space in Hayley's article to list all the bookstores where my books are available, so I shall list them here: 

Waterstones (Bury St Edmunds, Buttermarket branch); Browsers (Woodbridge); Idlers (Hadleigh); Landers (Long Melford); Diss bookshop (Diss); Bridge Farm Barns (Monks Eleigh); Leaping Hare bookshop (Wyken Vineyard); Stowmarket Tourist Information bookshop; The Green Barn (Ringshall).

Amazon (paperback and e-book)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pauline-Manders/e/B008A4H5LK/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_0

They may also be in your local library - just ask next time you visit your library! 

• Utterly Explosive
• Utterly Fuelled
• Utterly Rafted
• Utterly Reclaimed 

Utterly Crime Series - Signing and meet the author. Waterstones Bury St Edmunds July 26th 2014

Utterly Crime Series - book signing and meet the author Waterstones in Bury St Edmunds.

Utterly Crime Series - crime novels set in Suffolk

July 26th 2014. The first Saturday of the School Summer Holidays - and what a scorcher. Bury was busy with shoppers, holiday makers and visitors. Perfect weather to promote my latest Utterly Crime Novel - Utterly Rafted.

The plot includes the apparently senseless overdose of a young student quickly followed by a seemingly unconnected vicious murder. All the action takes place in Suffolk. Against this back drop the main characters prepare to enter  the annual Needham Market Raft Races.... 

Pictures from this year's Needham Market Raft Races added an extra feel of authenticity and created quite and interest and talking point at my book signing and meet the author on Saturday in Waterstones.

Author Pauline Manders at Needham Market Raft Race

PAULINE MANDERS

Author 

signing books 

and presenting  prizes

at the 2014 Needham Market Raft Races

Sunday 8th June 

first race 2pm

  

COME AND SEE where crime writer Pauline Manders got her 

inspiration for UTTERLY RAFTED, the third novel in the  Utterly

Crime Series.