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How I Became an Author of Police Procedural and Cosy Crime Novels

with author Jane Bettany

Monday 16th June 2025
Sandiacre Library, Sandiacre Sandiacre Library
Doncaster Avenue
Sandiacre
Derbyshire
UK
NG10 5FJ
Doors: 14:00

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Jane Bettany: Event Description

Do you enjoy Cosy Crime? Then come and meet Jane, and find out more about how a writer creates a plot and characters.

 

Biography: Jane Bettany

Jane Bettany is the author of the DI Isabel Blood crime novels, set in the fictional Derbyshire town of Bainbridge, and a cosy crime series featuring amateur sleuth Violet Brewster, which is also set in Derbyshire.  Jane's debut novel, ‘In Cold Blood’ (the first in the DI Isabel Blood series) won the 2019 Gransnet, and HQ writing competition, for women writers over the age of 40 who had written a novel with a protagonist in the same age range. Before turning to novel writing, Jane had been writing short stories and non-fiction articles for over twenty years, many of which have appeared in women’s magazines, literary magazines, newspapers and online.

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Jane Bettany: Event Description

Do you enjoy Cosy Crime? Then come and meet Jane, and find out more about how a writer creates a plot and characters.

 

Biography: Jane Bettany

Jane Bettany is the author of the DI Isabel Blood crime novels, set in the fictional Derbyshire town of Bainbridge, and a cosy crime series featuring amateur sleuth Violet Brewster, which is also set in Derbyshire.  Jane's debut novel, ‘In Cold Blood’ (the first in the DI Isabel Blood series) won the 2019 Gransnet, and HQ writing competition, for women writers over the age of 40 who had written a novel with a protagonist in the same age range. Before turning to novel writing, Jane had been writing short stories and non-fiction articles for over twenty years, many of which have appeared in women’s magazines, literary magazines, newspapers and online.

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Sandiacre Library
Doncaster Avenue
Sandiacre
Derbyshire
UK
NG10 5FJ

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