Carol Bruce spent her childhood in north-east England  where she developed a lifelong fascination with history. Her first  career as a forensic chemist led by a winding path to co-writing several  Harlequin Romance novels. A foray into screenwriting led to work as a  producer and editor of award-winning documentaries, including the story  of a local archaeological dig.

All these strands came together when, in mid-life, she  took an MA in Anthropology at the University of Wales and discovered  inspiration among the academic papers. A lifelong mystery reader, she  was inspired to write a story that drew on all these influences, as well  as her extensive reading of literature from the inter-war period in  England. The most important influence lay in her grandmother’s tales of  growing up in early twentieth-century Spain, in a privileged life a  world away from her eventual destiny in working-class Newcastle.

By some kind of alchemy, this became Carol’s debut historical mystery, The Pilgrim Road to Death.

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