TV Chef Luca Mazza Dies After Collapse at Food Show on the King’s Private Estate
Luca Mazza (38), who was taken ill during a food demonstration at the Fenn House Food and Wine Festival two days ago, is now known to have ingested poison. Lady Beatrice (36), the king’s niece, who is working on a refurbishment project at Fenn House with her business partner Perry Juke (34), is believed to be comforting Luca’s boss and close friend Sebastiano Marchetti (38), who she began dating last month.
Is he crazy? Why else would Detective Chief Inspector Richard Fitzwilliam suggest that Sebastiano poisoned Luca without any evidence? So now, with the help of her little dog Daisy and her best friends Perry and Simon, Lady Beatrice will have to prove to Mr Know-it-all Fitzwilliam that Seb is innocent. But with so many people having access to the food preparation area at the show how will she find out who did murder Luca before Fitzwilliam lets his personal dislike get the better of him and arrests Seb?
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Q&A
. Did or do you like to read comic books/grapic novels? Which ones?
No, I read mainly cozy mysteries and romantic comedies.
Whom did you inherit your love for books/reading from?
Both my parents read so I think that must have influenced me a lot. I loved reading at school as well. We read Lord of The Flies and I remember thinking how incredible it was that a story could have so many layers within it and how much emotion it could stir in people.
When you need a murder victim or someone you can diagnose with a serious disease or someone who is involved in a fatal accident do you sometimes picture someone nasty you have met in real life and think ‘got you’ LOL?
LOL, no, of course not! *wink
How do you come up with the names for your characters?
I get asked this a lot by my friends and family who are convinced any character with the same name as them must be based on them. The reality is that I use the name generator function in Scrivener, the software I write and plan in.
Do write other things beside books (and shoppinglists 😉 )?
I love a list!! I have a to do list in my diary every day and cross the items off as I complete them. It’s very satisfying. As a self-published author I have to write all my own copy for my advertising and marketing including the newsletter I send to my Golden Readers’ Group once or twice a month and some guest blogs. So yes, most of my day is spent writing in some form or another.
If a movie or series would be made from your books, would you be happy with the ‘based on’ version or would you rather like they showed it exactly the way you created it?
I think it’s unrealistic that a 2 hour movie or TV series can show all the details of your book, so a ‘based on’ is fine by me. All I would care about is that they represented my characters in the way I intended them. If not I would end up shouting at the screen, “She’d never do that!”
Who would you like/have liked to interview?
I would love to have been able to talk to M.C. Beaton, the author of the Agatha Raisin and Hamish MacBeth series. She is one of the authors who inspired me, and it would be great to ask her about her writing process and her own inspiration.
Do you have certain people you contact while doing research to pick their brains? What are they specialized in?
I use goggle for my initial research, but my editor has contacts in forensics and so does a thorough check before she sends me back draft.
Is there someone you sometimes discuss a dilemma with?
Mainly my editor.
What is more important to you : a rating in stars with no comments or a reviewer who explains what the comments they give are based on (without spoilers of course)
I believe there is always room for improvement, so I like to see reader’s comments. It’s good to know what they like and if there’s anything they don’t like, and I can factor that into future books if appropriate.
Thank you
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About the author
Hello. I’m Helen Golden. I write British contemporary cozy whodunnits with a hint of humour. I live in small village in Lincolnshire in the UK with my husband, my step-daughter, her two cats, our two dogs, sometimes my step-son, and our tortoise.
I used to work in senior management, but after my recent job came to a natural end I had the opportunity to follow my dreams and start writing. It’s very early in my life as an author, but so far I’m loving it.
It’s crazy busy at our house, so when I’m writing I retreat to our caravan (an impulsive lockdown purchase) which is mostly parked on our drive. When I really need total peace and quiet, I take it to a lovely site about 15 minutes away and hide there until my family runs out of food or clean clothes
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Book Links
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