There's something almost compulsive about a story set somewhere beautiful where everything goes horribly wrong. The perfect village. The idyllic small town. The close-knit community where everyone knows everyone's name and the gardens are immaculate and the local Facebook group buzzes with bake sale announcements and lost cat appeals. We're drawn in by the prettiness of it — and then we can't look away when the cracks appear. Why? What is it about paradise that makes darkness so irresistible?

How the curious history of live insect jewellery inspired my latest novel You’ve probably seen jewellery being sold in places like Etsy, featuring dried beetles, spiders or butterflies encased in resin or preserved in metal settings. Pretty standard, right? Well, let me introduce you to the trend of live insect jewellery. Yep, living, breathing insects being used as fashion accessories.This morbid trend is what inspired the latest novel in the Dr Vanessa Marwood series, Death’s Final Sting,...

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