Paula Williams

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About Paula Williams
Paula Williams is living her dream. She's written all her life - her earliest efforts involved blackmailing her unfortunate younger brothers into appearing in her plays and pageants. But it's only in recent years that she discovered, to her surprise, that people with better judgement than her brothers actually liked what she wrote and were prepared to pay her for it.
Now, she writes every day in a lovely, book-lined study in her home in Somerset, UK, where she lives with her husband and a handsome but not always obedient rescue dog, a Dalmatian called Duke. She is very proud to be a member of both the UK Romantic Novelists' Association and the Crime Writers' Association.
Her Much Winchmoor Mysteries are based in a small Somerset village which bears in uncanny resemblance to her own - although none of her friends and neighbours have murderous tendencies - as far as she knows! Her novels often feature a murder or two, a dog and cat or two and are always spiked with humour and sprinkled with a touch of romance.
She writes a monthly column, Ideas Store, for UK magazine Writers’ Forum and blogs at paulawilliamswriter.com. Her facebook author page is www.facebook.com/paula.williams.author, on Twitter at @paulawilliams44 and Instagram at paulawilliams_author where pictures of her incredibly handsome Dalmatian appear more often than pictures of her book covers.
Paula is, indeed, living her dream. But she worries that one day she's going to wake up and find she still has to bully her brothers into performing 'the play what she wrote'.
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Blog postI am delighted to welcome David Gatward to my blog this week. I recently featured him in my Idea Store column in Writers’ Forum and I was anxious to find out more about this author whose output has left me full of admiration, both for its quantity and quality.
I was first attracted to David’s books when I read that his current series of crime novels featured Wensleydale in the Yorkshire Dales, a part of the world I love as we had many happy family holidays there when my children3 weeks ago Read more -
Blog postIn the current issue of Writers’ Forum, I am writing about how I got the idea for one of my short stories and promised that the story in question, Good at Saying Goodbye, would be on my blog.
So, here it is. And if you have taken the trouble to come here after reading my Idea Store column, then thank you very much.
If not, then I hope you too will enjoy the short story, which came about after I got chatting to a lady in a supermarket car park.
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Blog postIt’s always a delight to hear from readers and recently a lovely lady called Gilly Metcalfe wrote to me to say how much she enjoyed my Idea Store column in Writers’ Forum, particularly the one where I was talking about how my family have inspired so many of my short stories. “I have so many … Continue reading A reader’s special memories – and my short story OUT OF BALANCE3 months ago Read more
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Blog postIn my Ideas Store column in the current issue of Writers’ Forum, I am telling the story behind the first short story I ever sold and how it was inspired by my childhood.
I will post the full story behind the story here (and separate the fact from the fiction) after the magazine has been out for a while, but in the meantime, as promised in my column, here is the short story. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it! It still makes me laugh and brings back such vivid5 months ago Read more -
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This is a stunning book and I loved every single page. It made me laugh, it made me cry – and it made me think.
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Blog postI’m delighted to welcome romantic suspense author, Morton S Gray to my blog this week.
I featured her recently in my Ideas Store column in Writers’ Forum because I had recently read and enjoyed The Truth Lies Buried with its engaging characters, lovely setting and a great storyline. I was intrigued to find out where the idea for the book came from. So I invited her on to my blog and thankfully, she said yes.
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Blog postI have recently typed two of my favourite words. The End. I have finally finished the fourth book in my Much Winchmoor Mysteries. Of course, it isn’t the end of the process but merely the end of the beginning as it is now with my publisher. And ahead of me (always assuming they decide they … Continue reading Endings, Beginnings – and waiting for my homework to be marked.11 months ago Read more
Titles By Paula Williams
One severed head, two warring neighbours – and a cold-blooded killer stalks Much Winchmoor.
There’s the murder made to look like a tragic accident, and a missing husband. Could he be victim number two?
The tiny Somerset village is fast gaining a reputation as the murder capital of the West Country, and once again, reporter/barmaid/dog walker, Kat Latcham, finds herself reluctantly dragged into the investigation.
Things are looking bad for Ed Fuller, the husband of one of Kat's oldest friends. Kat is convinced he’s innocent – but she's been wrong before. Has Kat come across her biggest challenge yet?
Fans of Janet Evanovich could well enjoy this "funky, modern day nosey detective" transported to the English countryside.
The third Much Winchmoor mystery is, as always, spiked with humour and sprinkled with a touch of romance.
‘Remember, abseiling is only the second fastest way down a church tower.’
The note pinned to the teddy bear lying at the foot of the church tower could have been a joke – if it hadn’t been for the body on the path next to it!
Somebody wants to make very sure that everyone knows this was not an accident or suicide. But why?
Suddenly, no one in the village has any enthusiasm for the Teddy Bear Abseil, planned to raise money for the children’s play area, as, once again, a murderer walks the narrow, twisty streets of the small Somerset village of Much Winchmoor.
And, once again, Kat Latcham, reporter/dog walker/barmaid and occasional reluctant hair salon gopher, finds herself unwillingly dragged into a murder investigation.
This fourth Much Winchmoor mystery is spiked with humour and sprinkled with romance. And, of course, one carefully planned, coldly executed murder.
After her boyfriend runs out on her with the contents of their joint bank account, Kat Latcham has no choice but to return to the tiny Somerset village of Much Winchmoor, where she grew up. A place, she reckons, that is not so much sleepy as comatose, and she longs for something exciting to happen to lessen the boredom of living with her parents.
But when she and her childhood friend, Will Manning, discover a body, and Will's father, John, is arrested for the murder, Kat suddenly realises she should have heeded the saying "be careful what you wish for”.
Much Winchmoor is a hotbed of gossip, and everyone is convinced John Manning is guilty. Only Kat and Will believe he's innocent. When there's a second murder, Kat is sure she knows the identity of the murderer – and sets out to prove it. But in doing so, she almost becomes the murderer's third victim.
Readers of Sue Grafton might enjoy the Much Winchmoor series of cosy murder mysteries spiked with humour and sprinkled with romance.
When self-styled ‘lady of the manor’, Margot Duckett-Trimble, announces she wouldn’t be seen dead drinking the stuff, who could have foreseen that, only a few days later, she’d be found, face down, in a vat of it?
Kat Latcham’s no stranger to murder. Indeed, the once ‘sleepy’ Somerset village of Much Winchmoor is fast gaining a reputation as the murder capital of the West Country and is ‘as sleepy as a kid on Christmas Eve’ when it’s discovered there’s a murderer running loose in the community again.
Kat has known Abe all her life, and she is sure that, although he had motive, he didn’t kill Margot. But as she investigates, the murderer strikes again. And the closer Kat gets to finding out who the real killer is, the closer to danger she becomes.
This second Much Winchmoor mystery is once again spiked with humour and sprinkled with romance – plus a cast of colourful characters, including a manic little dog called Prescott whose bite is definitely worse than his bark.
" Wonderfully warm, well plotted with a very human heroine, it’s a book about love and friendship. An extremely satisfying and heart-warming read.". Katie Fforde, President, Romantic Novelists' Association.