Karen Charlton

Karen Charlton is the bestselling author of the Detective Lavender Mystery Series which is set in Regency London and features Bow Street's Principal Officer, Stephen Lavender and his humorous side-kick, Constable Ned Woods. In addition to this, she has written a stand-alone historical novel, Catching the Eagle based on the true story of her notorious criminal ancestor and a genealogical book, Seeking Our Eagle that explains how she and her late husband tracked down the jail-bird in their family tree.

A former English teacher, with two grown-up children, Karen lives in a Yorkshire fishing village and now writes full-time.