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Welcome to my website. I’m a British crime writer based in London and Paris, and am now moving away from my Norfolk police procedurals into “cosy” crime mysteries set in Brittany. I hope you enjoy the change of scene and the more relaxed stories featuring amateur sleuths in my favourite part of France. Murder at the Manor was the fourth and last in my bestselling series of Norfolk murder mysteries.

My crime novels are all published by Joffe Books in ebooks and paperback versions. Please click on the Books page here to find out more.

The first in my new series of Brittany books, to be published later in 2023, has The Pantomime Murders as its working title. In a nutshell, it puts the Brit into Brittany… and don’t forget, “he’s behind you!”

I hope you enjoy browsing the site.

My Twitter handle is @annepenketh

You can also follow my wanderings as @penkaroo on Instagram

22 thoughts on “Home”

  1. I read both your articles in the Guardian about your struggle with Alzheimers. I’m surprised you didn’t mention CHC funding. There are thousands of us trying to get it for our relatives with dementia. Please sign our petition and maybe think of writing another article for the Guardian. We need the publicity. Thankyou.
    https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/238047

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    • Hi Karen, thanks for getting in touch. I did indeed mention it (although not in so many words) in yesterday’s piece but that was cut from the newspaper version. The online version is here on my site. I totally agree with you about how difficult it is to obtain CHC funding, and Mum is one of the thousands so far deprived of state help. I’m going to sign the petition right now.

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  2. I just spotted your name on a Guardian article and realised I knew you as a child. Our parents were friends and holidayed in Cornwall. I have memories of long bike ride rides with you and picking up discarded flowers from the compost at the back of church yards! I lived in Sale. Now I live in Canada just east of Toronto. I’m a retired kindergarten teacher with 5 grandsons. My name when you knew me was Jillian Toose. Think we might have met once when we were at uni in London. Best wishes , Jill

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  3. Hi Penk!!
    This is Marianne (ex CBC/NBC etc). Remember? I missed you on SKY News today but Rod said you were great. Would love to hear from you.
    Love
    Marianne

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  4. Dear Anne Penketh I was very interested in your comments on tomorrow’s French elections on Sky News today. I shall certainly be looking out for your articles in the Guardian. I’m also looking forward to buying your crime novel from my local bookshop when I’m next back in the UK.
    By the way, is your surname Lancastrian or Cumbrian? It’s obviously Celtic; “pen” or course means “head” as it does in Welsh and “keth” is a cognate of “coed” in Modern Welsh, means “woods”.

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    • Dear David, thanks for your comment, and indeed my last name is Celtic and the family hails from Lancashire, hence my accent too. I’ll be appearing again on Sky News from 5.30 UK time this afternoon. I hope you enjoy Murder on the Marsh, the next in the series is due out soon! all best, Anne

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  9. I just finished Murder on the Marsh and really enjoyed the book. I like the “peek” into everyone’s life. There were enough characters to make the story engaging but not so many to be confusing. I really appreciate how a good writer can tell a story, make me feel like I’m there, then braid it together in the end.
    My thanks and respect,
    Karen

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