Finnis, Jane.
Jane Finnis has been fascinated by the past ever since as a child she walked the straight Roman roads of East Yorkshire. After reading history at London University, she lived in London and was for some years a freelance broadcaster for BBC Radio, where her work ranged from reporting on current affairs to writing and narrating historical documentaries. She also did some computer programming, and in the 1980s changed careers yet again, to become a shopkeeper, when she moved with her husband Richard back to the north of England, and for a while they ran a craft shop in the Yorkshire Dales. Now she is settled near the Yorkshire coast, and writes mysteries set in 1st-century Roman Britain. She also does occasional freelance broadcasting, (using her married name of Jane Copsey,) and enjoys travelling with her husband, spending time in her garden, playing the guitar, and “messing about with computers.”
"People think I have an odd mixture of interests," Jane says. "But being fascinated by the ancient world doesn't have to cut you off from the modern one. Actually I think the Romans would have loved computers. If they'd managed to invent them, we'd probably all be speaking Latin to this day!"
Graves Myers, Beverle.
Bev fell in love with opera at age nine, during a marionette production of Rigoletto. A fascination with the mysteries of Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers wasn't far behind. After studying history at the University of Louisville, Bev earned a degree in medicine and went on to a career in public psychiatry. A longing to return to her early dreams led to a mid-life career switch. Bev now lives in Louisville, Kentucky where she combines mystery, history and opera in writing The Baroque Mysteries, a series of historical novels with an 18th-century opera singer as amateur sleuth.
