Ann Purser

Ann Purser is the author of the Lois Meade mysteries (Scandal at Six, Found Guilty at Five) and the Ivy Beasley mysteries (The Blackwoods Farm Enquiry, The Sleeping Salesman Enquiry). She was born in Market Harborough in Leicestershire and has lived most of her life in villages. She has turned her hand to many things, including journalism (as a columnist for SHE magazine), keeper of hens and donkeys, art gallery manager, clerical assistant in a village school, Open University graduate, novelist, mother of three, and wife of Philip Purser, critic and writer. She is an avid reader of detective stories.