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Whodunnit? It was Gill Jones...

Hampton has had its fair share of well known people,
such as DJ Johnny Walker and Sir Robert Peel, Prime
Minister and founder of the Metropolitan Police
Force.
Which leads neatly into a series of murder mysteries
by local author Lizzie Bentham - the pen name of
Gillian Jones. Gill grew up in Merseyside and has lived
here since October 2020 (in Walsal End Lane so
between Hampton and Barston). Her boys went to
Hampton Preschool and now go to George Fentham
so she knows loads of the parents. Her husband is a
paediatric surgeon at the Children's Hospital... When she isn’t watching cartoons, playing
with dinosaurs and making slime, she enjoys walks in the countryside, reading, flower-
arranging and crocheting. In her Red Brick Mystery series, she combines her love of all
things academic with another of her passions – murder mystery novels from the golden
age of crime writing.

New Cosy Murder Mysteries for Armchair Sleuths

Local author, Lizzie Bentham’s murder mystery novels Murder in Her First Degree, Murder
By The Book and Dying To Get To The Truth, have been published by Sharpe Books on
Amazon recently.

It’s the 1930s. Follow Dorothea Roberts and her friends’ adventures as they study at the
University of Manchester and have to solve a number of intriguing mysteries.

Murder In Her First Degree
Dorothea starts her academic career with a bang when she and her friends find
themselves investigating a shadowy spy-ring, after a chance encounter with a stranger on
a train turns deadly.

Murder By The Book
Dorothea and her friends investigate a murder that happened at the local museum,
twenty years previously. A killer struck at the opening of an exhibition featuring the
Boniface Psalter, a tome said to be cursed!

Dying To Get To The Truth
Female students at University of Reading are going missing. While visiting a friend there,
Dorothea is drawn into investigating the inhabitants of Harling Green, the epicentre of
strange goings on. Can she expose the dark underbelly of this idyllic Berkshire village?

Author Website: https://lizziebentham.com/

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