The House at Mermaid''s Cove

About Lindsay Jayne Ashford

Raised in Wolverhampton in the United Kingdom Lindsay Jayne Ashford was the first woman to graduate from Queens College Cambridge in its 550-year history. She earned a degree in criminology and was a reporter for the BBC before becoming a freelance journalist writing for a number of national magazines and newspapers. Lindsay began her career as a novelist with a contemporary crime series featuring forensic psychologist Megan Rhys followed by the historical mystery The Mysterious Death of Miss Jane Austen. Her four most recent books The Snow Gypsy Whisper of the Moon Moth The Color of Secrets and The Woman on the Orient Express blend fiction with real events of the early twentieth century. She has four children and divides her time between a seaside home on the west coast of Wales and a farmhouse in Spains Sierra de Los Filabres. Lindsay enjoys kayaking bodyboarding and walking her dogs Milly and Pablo. Visit the author at www.lindsayashford.com.