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Cambridge Coffee and Crime
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Kiwi author holed up in the Scottish Highlands, where the weather's interesting, but the plots are twisty. Surviving on whisky, woolly socks, and a steady diet of murder. Debut novel The Orchid Mystery blooming with Coffeetown Press late 2025.
📚 Excited to share that the first book in my Cambridge mystery series, The Orchid Mystery, will be published on 10 March 2026. 🕯️
Set in the 1970s, it’s a tale of secrets, academic intrigue, and whispers.
Stay tuned for more… #CambridgeMystery #OrchidMystery #March2026 #BookAnnouncement
October 6, 2025 at 6:10 PM
🎙️ Erudite, sardonic, and utterly brilliant — Mark Steele live for Mark Steele’s in Town.
✨ With the wonderful Caroline Biggs of The Spinning House.
What a night!
#MarkSteele #LiveRecording #ComedyAndConversation #SardonicWit #TheSpinningHouse
October 1, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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The Orchid Mystery, a closed circle mystery written in the style of the golden age crime novels, will be released on 10 March 2026.
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The Orchid Mystery, a closed circle mystery written in the style of the golden age crime novels, will be released on 10 March 2026.
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August 10, 2025 at 5:20 PM
The Orchid Mystery, a closed circle mystery written in the style of the golden age crime novels, will be released on 10 March 2026.
www.threads.com/@cambridgeco...
Nancy Mangan (@cambridgecoffeeandcrime) on Threads
The Orchid Mystery, a closed circle mystery written in the style of the golden age crime novels, will be released on 10 March 2026.
www.threads.com
August 10, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Why set The Orchid Mystery in 1977 Cambridge? A city on the edge of change, full of secrets, bicycles, and fog. Find out more about the setting and inspiration here: cambridgecoffeeandcrime.co.uk
#TheOrchidMystery #Cambridge1977 #CrimeFiction #HistoricalMystery #CambridgeLife #AmWriting
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The past never stays buried. Especially in Cambridge...
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July 13, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Cambridge, 1977. A rare orchid, left beside the body of a murdered professor, draws DCI Rievaulx and DC Carter into a deadly web of academic ambition, buried secrets, and a clandestine society where every clue threatens to unravel the quiet dignity of the university’s ancient foundations.
April 17, 2025 at 7:37 PM
People often ask why I set my mystery in Cambridge, and in 1977. Honestly, modern forensics can kill the suspense. Cambridge in ’77 has the perfect atmosphere for a classic, character-driven whodunit. #mysterynovel #mysterywtiter #goldenagemystery
July 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
People often ask why I set my mystery in Cambridge, and in 1977. Honestly, modern forensics can kill the suspense. Cambridge in ’77 has the perfect atmosphere for a classic, character-driven whodunit.
July 4, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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People often ask why I set my mystery in Cambridge, and in 1977. Honestly, modern forensics can kill the suspense. Cambridge in ’77 has the perfect atmosphere for a classic, character-driven whodunit.
May 26, 2025 at 11:29 AM
People often ask why I set my mystery in Cambridge, and in 1977. Honestly, modern forensics can kill the suspense. Cambridge in ’77 has the perfect atmosphere for a classic, character-driven whodunit.
May 26, 2025 at 11:29 AM
... DCI Jonathan Rievaulx and DS Emily Carter are called into a world where tradition hides corruption and intellect masks ambition.
May 24, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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Cambridge, 1977 is a city built on the bones of history, its courtyards hushed and its truths half-buried. When a respected professor is found dead in the gardens of St. Michael’s College with an orchid placed beside him with unsettling care, DCI Jonathan Rievaulx and DS Emily Carter...
April 23, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Cambridge, 1977 is a city built on the bones of history, its courtyards hushed and its truths half-buried. When a respected professor is found dead in the gardens of St. Michael’s College with an orchid placed beside him with unsettling care, DCI Jonathan Rievaulx and DS Emily Carter...
April 23, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Cambridge, 1977. A rare orchid, left beside the body of a murdered professor, draws DCI Rievaulx and DC Carter into a deadly web of academic ambition, buried secrets, and a clandestine society where every clue threatens to unravel the quiet dignity of the university’s ancient foundations.
April 17, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Love this... 'A reader lives a 1000 lives before they die'. So true.
April 12, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Hello, and thank you to my new followers. What a relief be here rather than X!
April 1, 2025 at 9:10 PM
That's it! Proofs done and dusted, and the amended version winging its way back to the publisher Coffeetown Press.
March 29, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Wow, I just started watching Adolescence. Seriously good.
March 18, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Proofs have arrived. Things are progressing!
March 14, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Plot...um...plotting... bloody hell, I'm sure it wasn't this difficult last time. Oh well, at least my house is clean!
March 4, 2025 at 7:03 PM
March 1, 2025 at 11:56 AM
In 1977 Cambridge, a rare orchid found beside a murdered professor plunges DCI Jonathan Rievaulx and DC Emily Carter into a labyrinth of academic rivalries, hidden manuscripts, and a secret society, revealing a conspiracy that threatens to unravel the very fabric of the university.
February 27, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Sunrise on a frosty morning in Norfolk
January 26, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Elon Musk's nazi salute has made me come to a decision I've been toting with for some time. I am now closing my X account. People are much nicer here anyway.
January 21, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Tonight, I've decided I have writers block. Any excuse to pour a Caledonian Canal gin. With tonic, ice, and a slice, of course!
January 16, 2025 at 8:49 PM