About Vera Morris

I lived in Widnes, Lancashire, for the first six years of my life. Two traumatic events happened to me during that time. My father died when I was three, and when I was six my mother took me to Felixstowe, Suffolk, to live with an aunt and uncle.

As an only child, with no other children in the family, I lived in my imagination. I was an avid reader and the children’s section in the Felixstowe library, became my second home. I loved the sea, learning to swim in it, the pebbled beaches, and the plant and animal life of shore and marsh. My life-long passions were formed: a love of words, wild-life and the Suffolk coast.

I read Zoology at Liverpool University, going on to do research. Teaching there, I found people more interesting than collecting data, and I became a full-time teacher and eventually headteacher of an 11-16 mixed comprehensive school.

Still a bookworm, one of my favourite genres was crime. I loved my job, but the nearest I got to creative writing were the governors’ reports! When I retired, I decided I’d like to try and write crime fiction

Eventually, after realizing a vivid imagination was not enough, and slowly learning my craft, I was lucky to be published, first, by Accent Press, and now Headline. Every year I return to the Suffolk coast to research for the next book in the Anglian Detective Agency Series, as I chose to set the books on the haunting stretch of coast between Southwold and Orford.

I live in Berkshire, and when I’m not writing, I can usually be found on my knees in the garden – weeding not praying!

Vera