Amy Myers

Myers was born in Barnehurst,[14] which was still considered part of Kent in 1938. (In 1965, the town became part of Greater London.) It was while working in publishing that Myers met her soon-to-be American husband. Myers oversaw the publication of an autobiography by English bullfighter Henry Higgins; she met Higgins, his co-author, and the co-author's cousin, James Myers, born in Buffalo, New York.[15][16] Although American-born, James Myers, has spent his adult life living in Europe.[16]

For 10 years, the Myers maintained a commuter marriage, dividing their time between Paris, where James worked, and London, where Amy worked.[1][15][17] It was during her stays in Paris that Myers dreamed up the character for her first mystery series, Auguste Didier, a half-English, half French chef who reluctantly dabbled in detection during the late Victorian and Edwardian periods.[17] The couple now live in Kent full-time.[2][15][17]

Like the character Luke Frost in Myers' Marsh and Daughter series, Myers was once a publisher. She served as director of the now-defunct publishing firm of William Kimber & Co. Ltd., which specialised in war and theatrical memoirs, autobiographies, biographies, and tales of hauntings.[17] Myers published her first mystery, Murder in Pug's Parlor, in 1986. In 1988, Myers turned to writing full-time.

After 11 Auguste Didier mysteries, Myers introduced former police detective Peter Marsh and his daughter Georgia in The Wickenham Murders in 2004. The father–daughter team write true-crime novels in which they expose an injustice or sleuth out the answer to an unsolved crime from the distant past.[18] The Marshes' investigations almost inevitably involve them with present-day murders stemming from secrets involving the past.[18]

Myers launched a third series in 2007 with Tom Wasp and the Murdered Stunner. Tom Wasp, a Victorian era chimney sweep in East London, solves crimes along with his former apprentice, Ned.[18] Myers' fourth series, written with the help of her car buff husband, began in 2011 with Classic in the Barn.[16] That series features a modern-day classic-car restorer in Kent, Jack Colby, who helps the police with cases involving classic cars.[18]

In 2017, Myers introduced yet another cozy mystery series, this one featuring Nell Drury, a female French-trained chef in 1925 Kent when such a thing was a real anomaly. The debut novel is titled Dancing with Death.[19]

For her romances, historical sagas and suspense novels, Myers created the pseudonym Harriet Hudson, although she has occasionally also used the names Laura Daniels and Alice Carr.[15][17]

Myers also writes reviews of other books at the online crime and thriller magazine Shots.[17]

• Amy Myers' official website
• Crime in the Fast Lane, where James Myers blogs in the guise of his wife's character, Jack Colby, and about classic cars