Sue Cook, who has lived in Dobcross for more than 20 years, has just released her fourth book on Kindle Unlimited.
She started writing when she was in school in the valleys of South Wales, but having retired from the NHS, she has had five pocket novels published with DC Thomson.
Her latest release, Murder at the Abbey, combines cosy crime with sweet romance set during the dissolution of the monasteries. Thomas Cromwell even makes an appearance.
Often, her ducks find their way into a story.
For example, Mrs Grey, her grey pet India runner duck, brings the hero and heroine together in Sue’s next release – Survival Instincts, a vet story set in the Forest of Bowland.
Her flock of five ducks featured in a My Weekly story where new neighbours got off to a terrible start.
You can read it on their website at https://www.myweekly.co.uk/2022/09/22/brownies-for-breakfast/
Other pets have made appearances in her stories, too, such as when a neighbour bought a toy dog to replace the Cook family Labrador after she had to be put to sleep. Visit https://www.myweekly.co.uk/2023/01/30/samsons-legacy/
She said: “It’s a case of writing about what you know, or at least what you’ve experienced, because emotion is at the heart of all good stories.
“I still remember the joy that seeing the stuffed toy sitting on Tessa’s old doggie bed brought.”
On a similar note, Sue has just finished writing a serial for The People’s Friend, which is set on a retreat in Umbria. That was inspired by the terror of spending a week deep in a tinder-dry forest during a heatwave, and the previous year there’d been an arsonist on the loose.
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