Author of the Cresthollow Bay Mysteries

Verity Browning

Warm. Witty. Dark without being grim.

A coastal town with a long memory. A reluctant journalist with a notebook. Mysteries that reward a second read.

The Series

The Cresthollow Bay Mysteries

Welcome to Cresthollow Bay: a coastal town with a long memory, a public library that doubles as the moral centre of the universe, and a former arts journalist who keeps finding herself at the centre of murders she didn't ask to solve.

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About

About Verity

She lives within walking distance of cold water, takes an excessive interest in regional archives, and is on cordial but cautious terms with the local seabird population.

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The Journal

Recent Dispatches

Notes from a desk that overlooks something grey — pieces from inside the world of Cresthollow Bay, occasional behind-the-scenes about the writing of the books, and the odd digression about whatever I happen to be reading.

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