S.J. Bennett's Blog
June 24, 2024
A Death in Diamonds
I'm thrilled to see book 4 in the series starting to appear in countries around the world. Look out for more news soon about the paperback in the UK and the hardback in the US and Canada.
In A Death in Diamonds, we go back in time to 1957, when the young Queen was managing two small children, a stuffy court inherited from her father and a very busy travel schedule that took here from France to Denmark to Ottawa, Washington and New York. I loved fitting in the solving of a double murder close to home alongside the real events of that year. Notes at the back explain what's real and what is not. More scenes are based on what really happened than you might think!
In A Death in Diamonds, we go back in time to 1957, when the young Queen was managing two small children, a stuffy court inherited from her father and a very busy travel schedule that took here from France to Denmark to Ottawa, Washington and New York. I loved fitting in the solving of a double murder close to home alongside the real events of that year. Notes at the back explain what's real and what is not. More scenes are based on what really happened than you might think!
September 2, 2022
Murder Most Royal
I'm thrilled to say that the series has become a trilogy! The third book in the Her Majesty the Queen Investigates series is called MURDER MOST ROYAL and it will be out in the UK in November, and in North America and other countries at some point in 2023. This time the setting is Sandringham. It's 2016 and it's been a busy year for the Queen. She's looking forward to some rest and relaxation at Christmas, but a human hand washes up on a nearby beach to her Norfolk home, and it's the Queen who recognises the victim ...
I'm now busy on book 4, which will go back in time to Paris in 1957, and accompany the Queen on a very action-packed year, during which, funnily enough, she has another murder or two to solve ...
I'm now busy on book 4, which will go back in time to Paris in 1957, and accompany the Queen on a very action-packed year, during which, funnily enough, she has another murder or two to solve ...
Murder Most Royal
I'm thrilled to say that the series has become a trilogy! The third book in the Her Majesty the Queen Investigates series is called MURDER MOST ROYAL and it will be out in the UK in November, and in North America and other countries at some point in 2023. This time the setting is Sandringham. It's 2016 and it's been a busy year for the Queen. She's looking forward to some rest and relaxation at Christmas, but a human hand washes up on a nearby beach to her Norfolk home, and it's the Queen who recognises the victim ...
I'm now busy on book 4, which will go back in time to Paris in 1957, and accompany the Queen on a very action-packed year, during which, funnily enough, she has another murder or two to solve ...
I'm now busy on book 4, which will go back in time to Paris in 1957, and accompany the Queen on a very action-packed year, during which, funnily enough, she has another murder or two to solve ...
January 2, 2021
New year, new books
Happy New Year, readers! And I really mean that. We've all come to appreciate the fragility and the importance of life more than ever in recent times. When we can finally celebrate that feeling around the world ... well, what a celebration it will be.
As I write, London is in lockdown. I'm waiting for the edits for book 2 of the Her Majesty The Queen Investigates series, and busy mentally dispatching people across East Anglia for book 3, which will come out in 2022. That book is set on the North Norfolk coast, in and around the Sandringham estate, and it is a joyful part of my job that I can mentally visit the wide open landscapes, vast skies and air alive with birdsong in that part of the country - even if I can't go physically, as I did this time last year.
Nor can Her Majesty, of course. Like the rest of us who are playing by the rules (not all, but most), she is staying put at Windsor, and I can picture her exactly, going for a morning ride and sipping an evening gin and Dubonnet, attending to her latest jigsaw puzzle and her State duties, with Philip by her side. I wonder if she's had the jab yet. I hope so. Meanwhile, we hunker down and hope that by summer, the world will be a different place.
I wish you all, as the Queen would say, a happy and hopeful 2021. Now back to the writing shed. Brrrrrr ... it's cold.
SJ Bennett
As I write, London is in lockdown. I'm waiting for the edits for book 2 of the Her Majesty The Queen Investigates series, and busy mentally dispatching people across East Anglia for book 3, which will come out in 2022. That book is set on the North Norfolk coast, in and around the Sandringham estate, and it is a joyful part of my job that I can mentally visit the wide open landscapes, vast skies and air alive with birdsong in that part of the country - even if I can't go physically, as I did this time last year.
Nor can Her Majesty, of course. Like the rest of us who are playing by the rules (not all, but most), she is staying put at Windsor, and I can picture her exactly, going for a morning ride and sipping an evening gin and Dubonnet, attending to her latest jigsaw puzzle and her State duties, with Philip by her side. I wonder if she's had the jab yet. I hope so. Meanwhile, we hunker down and hope that by summer, the world will be a different place.
I wish you all, as the Queen would say, a happy and hopeful 2021. Now back to the writing shed. Brrrrrr ... it's cold.
SJ Bennett
