Lionel Ward

I am writing a series of crime books based around a bookshop owner inspired by own time as a manager of a bookshop for more than 30 years. There are now three in the series: The Shakespeare Thief, Roman Holiday and Somerset Odyssey. The series title is The Elliot Todd Mysteries. I am busy writing the fourth. Central to the stories are the characters of Elliot the bookshop owner, his main employee, Esther, the subject of his unrequited love, the eccentric but loyal Aggie, his interfering mother Elizabeth and his history mad friend Cameron. They are written, I hope, with warmth and humour and contain many a literary allusion.