Ann Purser

Ann Purser is married to the writer Philip Purser and has 2 daughters, 1 son, 1 daughter-in-law, 1 son-in-law and 3 grandchildren. She lives in a village in Northamptonshire.

She has run her own Art Gallery, worked in a village school, kept donkeys, chickens, geese, ducks and guinea fowl, bantams, cats and dogs. She has an Open University arts degree.

She has written a series of ROUND RINGFORD novels, which are contemporary stories of village life published by Orion. They include PASTURES NEW, SPINSTER OF THIS PARISH, ORPHAN LAMB, NEW EVERY MORNING, THY NEIGHBOUR'S WIFE and MIXED DOUBLES.

More recently she has been working on the LOIS MEADE MYSTERIES. To date MURDER ON MONDAY, TERROR ON TUESDAY and WEEPING ON WEDNESDAY have been published. The rest of the week is yet to come. They are published by Severn House.

Back by popular demand— cleaning lady Lois Meade has sleuthed through a full week, but crime can happen at any hour...

Lois Meade is a working class mum, cleaner extraordinaire, and a part-time sleuth. But she has her work set out for her when tenants of her rental home start leaving, frustrated by their neighbor’s noisy pet rooster. The owner, elderly Clem Fitch, refuses to part with his feathery companion, aptly named Satan.

It’s a relief when Lois’s son Douglas asks to rent the house. But then peculiar things start occurring on Gordon Street. When Clem and his pet are found dead, Douglas is one of the prime suspects. As landlord, mother, and witness, Lois must take action and flush out the killer who’s fouling the Meade name…