Austin Macauley Publishers showcasing ‘Moorland Forensics – Bound by Polaris’ & ‘Moorland Forensics – Devil’s Realm’ at the London Book Fair.
Olympia Exhibition Centre, Hammersmith
(12th-14th March 2024)
Julie is a British/Australian citizen, currently residing in The Blue Mountains, near Sydney.
Before training as a nurse at the Gloucestershire Royal Hospital, Julie lived and worked in Bavaria, Germany. Here she made many friends and became proficient in German.
Born in Bovey Tracey on the edge of Dartmoor in Devon, she grew up on the South Coast around Kingsbridge. Memories of excursions onto the rugged moors, riding around the idyllic back country lanes and summers spent on the surf beaches; coupled with a love of writing and a passionate interest in all things forensic science were the inspiration for the Moorland Forensic series of crime fiction.
She is a classically trained flautist, proficient horse-rider and journalist, having studied at the Australian College of Journalism.
“Julie Jones is a name to remember in the crowded world of police procedural tales… Brilliant stuff.” -Paul Norman, Books monthly
Moorland Forensics – Bound by Polaris
Ted Cartwright is convicted of the murders of five woman on Dartmoor in 1996. All through the trial Ted claims his innocence. Fifteen years later Muriel Jennings is attacked in her Ashburton home. At the time Muriel is attacked she belonged to a local book club who were reviewing “The Sinner’s Daughter” based on the Dartmoor murders.
Moorland Forensics – Devil’s Realm
On a searing summer’s day on an idyllic beach in South Devon, a young boy plunges to a horrific death from the overlanding cliffs, the tragic event graphically captured on film by the enigmatic Salcombe painter and entrepreneur Lois St John. Five years later the boy’s father suffers the identical fate at the same location.
Moorland Forensics – Conspiracy of Souls
In 1986 young investigative reporter for the Newton Abbot Star and daughter of wealthy philanthropist Lord Ilbert-Tavistock tragically disappears under mysterious circumstances, never to be seen again.
Moorland Forensics – Aftershock
A young family is ripped apart by a brutal, pre-meditated home invasion. Fifteen years later the South West of England is rocked by a series of devastating suspected terrorist bombings, putting the Nation on high alert. Investigations uncover connections to these tragedies with a catastrophic IRA car bombing in Northern Ireland a generation earlier. The team at Moorland Forensic Consultants battle conflicts of interests and personal crises as they work with Government Scientists and a compromised faltering local law enforcement to bring the bombers to justice.
Moorland Forensics – A Gathering of Angels
December 1971 – The dark days of the short but brutal Indian-Pakistan War. An East Bengali village, a young Pakistani girl hurrying home from a shopping errand witnesses her family home destroyed, her parents killed in an indiscriminate rocket attack by Pakistan fighter bombers. In 1997 the body of a teenage schoolboy is dragged from the River Dart in South Devon. Several years later both dramatic events will have dire consequences for celebrated author Miles Betteridge and respected pathologist Margo Betteridge.