| When | Wednesday 11th June 2025 at 18:30 |
| Where | The Exchange, Sturminster Newton 1 Old Market Hill Sturminster Newton Dorset DT10 1QU |
| Event Type | Talks |
| Price | £10 |
| Booking | Preferred |
| Tickets | |
| Also available at 1855, Market Cross, Sturminster Newton |
Award winning crime writer Rachel McLean sets many of her novels in Dorset. In this talk she will outline how she researches locations in Dorset and sets the scene for a crime to take place in her books. Rachel will also highlight her latest book, The Lyme Regis Women’s Swimming Club.
The Lyme Regis Women’s Swimming Club
Meet Annie, Rosamund, Helen and Figgy. Four very different women united by a love of swimming in Lyme Regis’s beautiful bay. After a morning swim, two members of the club discover a dead body in another member’s car, which later vanishes. Did they imagine it? Or did their friend kill a man? And if there was a body, where has it gone? Without a body, there can’t have been a crime. Can’t there? But the swimming club are certain they weren’t imagining things, and there’s a murder to solve.
The question is, will solving it put their friend in prison?
Rachel McLean is an award-winning crime author who writes UK- based police procedurals. She is best known for the Dorset Crime series and the DI Zoe Finch series set in her home city of Birmingham. Book 1 in the Dorset Crime series, The Corfe Castle Murders, won the Kindle Storyteller Award 2021.
She’s now working on three new series: the McBride and Tanner series set around Loch Lomond in Scotland, the Cumbria Crime series which follows her character DI Zoe Finch to western Cumbria, and the London Cosy Mysteries series.
As well as twenty-five crime novels (so far), she has written seven dystopian thrillers including two trilogies and one standalone novel.
A full bibliography and reading order can be found at https://rachelmclean.com/pages/reading-order.