Jo Bavington-Jones
Jo Bavington-Jones lives on the Kent coast with her partner, the photographer Dirk Seyfried, and the neighbours’ cats. And sometimes a very friendly fox called Samantha.
Jo came to writing late in life after many years of working to pay the bills, and bringing up her son. After learning her craft writing women’s fiction, Jo finally turned to a life of crime during the first Covid lockdown, and The Write Way to Die series was born. Jo says crime fiction is definitely her first love, and is about to start writing book four, but she is still drawn to women’s fiction and family dramas, and says not to rule out the possibility of a love story in the future.
Abandoned by their father, sisters Mags, Cami and Rose are raised by their cold and bitter mother. Finding their own private ways of coping with their unhappy childhoods, the sisters each bear hidden scars of the past. Until, that is, next-door neighbour ‘Uncle Ken’ dies, and skeletons that have remained buried for decades begin to surface. Can the sisters unite to confront their demons and draw a line under the past, or will the revelations destroy them?
‘The Write Way to Die’ is a fast-paced and intriguing blackly comic tale of murder in the creative quarter of a seaside town where the bodies are mounting up amongst the art installations.
When Amy joins a writing group, it’s murder. On paper, at least, as the eclectic members pen their perfect killings. The planner, the housewife, the pantser and the classicist all contribute their stories, some darkly comic, others simply gruesome. Then there’s Robert, who wants to write a killer worthy of a nickname. Enter The Exhibitionist, the stuff of nightmares, and the darkest of all.
‘Bang to Rights’ is a fast-paced and blackly comic tale of murder amongst the artworks of a seaside town, and the much anticipated sequel to ‘The Write Way to Die’. When more bodies start turning up at the art installations scattered around the seaside town of Folkestone, best friends Amy and Jenny panic. Can The Exhibitionist really be back? Did they get the wrong man the previous summer? There’s only one way to find out, so the friends turn amateur detective once more as they bumble their way through stakeouts and stalking of a killer who is literally painting the town red with the blood of his victims.
The Wipeout Round sees the return of best friends and amateur detectives, Amy and Jenny. Having seen off two serial killers in as many years, the pair are looking forward to a quiet life, but their hometown of Folkestone has other ideas.
Throwing themselves into the local pub quiz scene, Amy and Jenny are shocked when members of other teams start dropping dead at an alarming rate. Jenny’s convinced they simply died of old age, but Amy’s not so sure and sets out to investigate, hoping to find enough evidence to convince her friend there’s more to it. When Amy gets too close to the truth, she puts a target on her own back. Will she be the next quizzer to meet a questionable end?