Pauline Kirk
A published novelist, poet and publisher — and the one who had the writer’s block that started all of this. She also wrote The Keepers and Border 7 under her own name.
About
The women behind DI Ambrose
A novelist, a lawyer, and one dare that turned into a series.
The Long Story
Two writers, one name on the spine.
PJ Quinn is the pen name for the mother-and-daughter crime writing duo Pauline Kirk and Jo Summers.
Pauline is a published novelist, poet and a publisher. Jo is a lawyer. Both have a love of words.
When Pauline got writer’s block, Jo challenged her to write a crime novel. Somehow Jo ended up writing the novel with her.
The result is the DI Ambrose Mysteries. Set in the late 1950s and early 1960s, it’s an era that now seems a lifetime ago.
Who Does What
One half poet. One half lawyer.
Jo Summers
A lawyer, who issued the challenge — write a proper whodunnit — and then found herself co-writing the answer.
PJ Quinn
The name on the spine of every DI Ambrose mystery: a good old-fashioned whodunnit, with interesting characters and a great plot.
An era when men wore hats and ladies’ skirts covered their knees. But murderers exist even in this age of innocence.From Foul Play, 1958
Where to Begin
Ten books are waiting.
Five for DI Ambrose, and five that go somewhere else entirely.