Denise Beddows
Denise Beddows is also a member of the Society of Authors and Chiltern Independent Authors. She writes crime/espionage fiction and true crime and is currently contracted to SpellBound Books.
As a Chief Immigration Officer with a background in research, investigation and intelligence analysis, she has lived, worked and played in 20+ countries across several continents, but took early retirement in 2010 in order to concentrate on writing. She is the founder of Chiltern Kills Crime Writing Festival and actively supports Chalfont St Giles & Jordans Literary Festival.
Her successful series of espionage novels in The Thames House Files series have all been ranked in Amazon’s Top Five, with two books in the series: Shearwater Point and The Kohat Connection, hitting the Number One spot and also breaking into Amazon’s Top 100 Kindles. Her recent true crime book The Forgotten Forty-Four: Victims and Survivors of America’s First Serial Sex Killer was shortlisted in the 2024 True Crime Awards and was awarded a ‘Highly Commended‘ in the Book of the Year Awards.
Who Killed Emerald Isacson? released on 15 March 2025, is the first book in her new cozy crime series Misbourne Murder Mysteries.
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Books by Denise Beddows
The Nevsky Prospekt Affair
The Kohat Connection
The Forgotten Forty-Four: Victims and Survivors of America’s First Serial Sex Killer
Shearwater Point
A Long Road to Revenge
When the Grey Wolf Sings
The Hunt for WOTAK
Odd Man Out – A Motiveless Murder?
The Cheetham Hill Murder – A Convenient Killing?
Bulstrode – Splendour and Scandals of a Buckinghamshire Mansion
Buckinghamshire Spies and Subversives
The Famous and Infamous of The Chalfonts & District
Running with Crows – The Life and Death of a Black and Tan
A Wistful Eye – The Tragedy of a Titanic Shipwright
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