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Hidden Book 2

Florence has left nursing to become the private investigator of her dreams but, after working for a year with Arthur Renishaw and seeing the reality of life as a PI, happily she accepts her position as office manager in Renishaw Private Investigation Services.

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The Barwell Trilogy by Jacqueline James

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Rude Awakening

Jacqueline’s debut novel, Rude Awakening, is a thought-provoking and touching tale of loss, evolving friendship and self discovery.

Hilary’s mother dies suddenly and she is thrown into a spiral of despair. With support from her friends she lifts herself out of her despondency, and begins to come to terms with the loss, until the discovery of a manuscript amongst her mother’s things throws her into turmoil.

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Let's Escape

Hilary, released from a life of bowing to her mother’s wishes, has come out of her shell. Emboldened, she renovates the bungalow that she and her mother had shared. In trying to escape the resulting chaos, she ventures on a trip that would have been unthinkable while her mother was alive. Surprising herself and delighting her friends, she finds love and the promise of happiness.

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Journey’s End

Jacqueline’s debut novel, Rude Awakening, is a thought-provoking and touching tale of loss, evolving friendship and self discovery.

When Hilary and Tobiasz return from a road trip that should have taken them to Poland and Tobiasz’s roots, Hilary is shocked to find a letter from a woman purporting to have information about her own mother, Phyllis.

The Hidden Series by Jacqueline James

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Hidden

It’s 1988 in England, and Florence has decided to retire from her longtime nursing career. Fancying herself a modern-day Sherlock Holmes, she takes a job as assistant in a one-man private investigator’s office. Tired of answering the phone and filing, she’s desperate to solve a real case.

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Hidden Book 2

I, like many others, have experienced the feeling of being trapped by circumstances, by the constant need to put others first, the difficulty of finding a means of escape, the impossibility of being able to live fully as yourself.

Writing has always been a form of release, a way of processing my feelings. I have kept all my travel journals but the words written to help me make sense of life, during my years as a full time general practitioner, have not survived. With the added challenge of caring for elderly parents, characters developed in my mind who allowed me to fictionalise my feelings, first in short stories and then novels. I had found my escape.

My books are ordinary stories about ordinary people. How we deal with the chaos left by everyday events in our own lives, relying on the kindness of others and our own resilience until order is restored; and how in that process we change and grow.

In the books, Hilary and her friends mirror facets of my own life experiences. Hilary’s story is unique, as is my own. Readers may not have lived the same lives as Hilary, her friends or even myself but the feelings are universal.