Jane Bettany - How I became an author of police procedural and cosy crime novels

Derby Book Festival has teamed up with the Society of Authors, Derby Libraries and Derbyshire Library Service to organise a series of talks by local authors in libraries across the city and county in June with more planned in the autumn. 

Jane Bettany is the author of the DI Isabel Blood crime novels, set in the fictional Derbyshire town of Bainbridge, and a cosy crime series featuring amateur sleuth Violet Brewster, which is also set in Derbyshire.  Jane's debut novel, ‘In Cold Blood’ (the first in the DI Isabel Blood series) won the 2019 Gransnet, and HQ writing competition, for women writers over the age of 40 who had written a novel with a protagonist in the same age range. Before turning to novel writing, Jane had been writing short stories and non-fiction articles for over twenty years, many of which have appeared in women’s magazines, literary magazines, newspapers and online.