Hi, I’m also known as Pauline Rendall, but
I write crime as Paula K. Randall. I currently live in Essex with my partner,
but in fact I’ve lived in various places in the British Isles, from Orkney to
Cornwall. Originally I’m from Sheffield, bang in the middle. My first novel,
Hangman’s Wood, takes place on the North Suffolk coast, where I also lived and
worked for a number of years.
I’ve written for as long as I can remember, though it’s only recently that I turned to crime (as it were!) As a young teenager I wrote stories based on Biggles and Worrals, then, later on, I wrote stories for pony-mad teenagers, some of which were published in Pony Annual. But somehow I fell in to writing police procedurals, which is where Hangman’s Wood and its sequel, Washed in the Blood (not available yet) fit in.
Recently I was thrilled to win first prize in the Nibfest ‘Write-a-thon’ competition for the opening chapters of my new novel, Black Mail, and as a result of that I’m now represented by Watson, Little, which is wonderful. This novel will be another new venture for me, since it’s a thriller, rather than a police procedural. If you like you can read the first 3 chapters here. http://tinyurl.com/kleodpl
I have one son, who lives in Devon, and an infinite number of grandchildren. My great passions, apart from reading and writing are opera, ballet, cats, photography and cricket, though not necessarily in that order. I also spend a lot of time in Spain.
I’ve written for as long as I can remember, though it’s only recently that I turned to crime (as it were!) As a young teenager I wrote stories based on Biggles and Worrals, then, later on, I wrote stories for pony-mad teenagers, some of which were published in Pony Annual. But somehow I fell in to writing police procedurals, which is where Hangman’s Wood and its sequel, Washed in the Blood (not available yet) fit in.
Recently I was thrilled to win first prize in the Nibfest ‘Write-a-thon’ competition for the opening chapters of my new novel, Black Mail, and as a result of that I’m now represented by Watson, Little, which is wonderful. This novel will be another new venture for me, since it’s a thriller, rather than a police procedural. If you like you can read the first 3 chapters here. http://tinyurl.com/kleodpl
I have one son, who lives in Devon, and an infinite number of grandchildren. My great passions, apart from reading and writing are opera, ballet, cats, photography and cricket, though not necessarily in that order. I also spend a lot of time in Spain.
When Jake Summers, a university student, is
viciously attacked and left for dead, newly promoted D.I. Fiona Brightman finds
herself on the trail of a couple of young thugs embarked on a spree of brutal
assaults. But soon the violence escalates and first a child and then a
middle-aged woman are murdered in Hangman's Wood, with a fourth person missing:
young and attractive Natalie Gower. With time running out, can Brightman,
dealing with a tricky marriage and still grieving from the death of her four-year-old daughter, stop the killers and find Natalie before they strike again?
Brightman's search for the killers take her far afield from her home county of Suffolk to the Scottish borders and the Kent coast, at one point endangering her own life during a frantic chase through the notorious Hangman's Wood. If you’re interested in reading Hangman’s Wood, it’s available on Amazon. |