The Writers of Wales Database

LOWE, KAREN

Website: www.beanpolebooks.co.uk

Karen was born in the South Gower and moved to Shropshire aged five. She studied English, French and German at University in London and began writing children’s stories when she returned to Shropshire, some of which were broadcast by the BBC on ’Playschool’. Karen also wrote a collection of Shropshire folk stories; Witches & Warriors, Legends from the Shropshire Marches (Shropshire Books, 1990). Shropshire’s landscape and its folklore also provided inspiration for historical romances. Karen has worked in libraries since then and began writing Death in the Physic Garden (Beanpole Books, 2005) , which started as a book on astrology and gardening, but soon developed into a crime novel with a garden designer astrologer heroine, Fern Green. After studying for a City & Guilds in garden design, she completely rewrote Physic Garden and ten years after its conception, the work was finally finished in 2004. She intends to follow this title with a second in the series.

Selected Publications:
Witches & Warriors, Legends from the Shropshire Marches (Shropshire Books, 1990)
50 Shropshire Crosswords (Beanpole Books, 1997)
50 Bookworms Crosswords (Beanpole Books, 2004)
Death in the Physic Garden (Beanpole Books, 2005)



Death in the Physic Garden (Beanpole Books, 2005)

When garden designer Fern Green escapes from London to start her new business in the South Shropshire hills, she believes she has found peace and safety at last – until she discovers the body of her first client, wealthy herbalist Joshua Hamble, dead in his physic garden. So begins a trail of murder and revenge as Fern unearths the Hambles’ family secrets. As DI Drummond warns her, " gardening can be a dangerous business"

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