
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 publish book five, 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.

When Amy joins a writing group, it’s murder.
Having left her job at the vet’s to pursue her writing career, Amy joins a local writing group and suggests the members pen their perfect murders. The short stories, like the writers, vary greatly, from Amy’s darkly funny tale involving far too many cake references and a pet crematorium, to gentleman John’s coldly calculated revenge killing.
Then there’s Robert, who inserts himself into the group in quite a strange manner, and who wants to write a killer worthy of a nickname. Enter the Exhibitionist, the stuff of nightmares and the darkest of them all.
When bodies start appearing for real around the seaside town’s art installations, Amy and new best friend, potty-mouthed, pink-haired Jenny turn detective. Could life really be imitating art?

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?

Amy and Jenny are back in The Wrong Mind Murders, and looking forward to returning to normal after the ordeal of Amy’s kidnapping. As ever, their seaside hometown of Folkestone has other ideas, and Amy’s spidey senses are soon tingling once more.
Belinda has moved to Folkestone for a fresh start following the painful end of her marriage, and is quickly befriended by Amy and the others, who are drawn to her gentle nature. But, as the saying goes, still waters run deep: is Belinda hiding a murky secret? And are the seemingly random murders happening in the town actually connected?
With Amy still confused over her feelings for Willem, the arrival of handsome knitter, Lesley, an old crush from her university days, doesn’t help matters. Will Amy lose her heart to the charming Scot, or does it still belong to the gruff South African?

If Amy was a dog, she’d be a Bloodhound.
So, when the seaside town of Folkestone’s lively summer turns deathly yet again, Amy can’t resist poking her nose in, in spite of her promises not to get involved. The lure of a killer who seems to be re-enacting medieval punishments, especially those involving animals, is irresistible, and Amy goes sniffing around with her new sidekick, a Golden Retriever puppy named Jester.
When Willem, probably a Bearded Collie in the dog world, has a chance encounter with a stranger, he has no idea his world is about to be turned upside down. All he knows is that he will do anything to protect Amy.
If Jenny was a dog, she’d be a cat. Her main concern is the fact that one of her beloved cats came home wearing an Elizabethan ruff…

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?
