Janie Bolitho was an American author made famous for her detective crime mystery series. She also wrote under the alias Jodie Sinclair for a variety of freestanding novels. Just like many other authors, Bolitho fits the cliché of following the clichéd working life before and during their writing career. Just like many fellow published writers, earning a living was never a separate pursuit from her writing as she drew a lot of her stories from her previous working experiences. Before becoming a professional novelist, Janie worked as a bookmaker’s clerk, tour guide, debt collector, and psychiatric nurse. Her big break came with the publishing of the detective chief inspector Roper series, which attained much commercial success, allowing her to
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Nonetheless, no one can dispute that she was a prolific writer that wrote some of the best detective crime mystery series over her short professional career. In addition ot the seven Trevelyan series and the twelve Roper novels, she churned out 4 free standing romantic thriller novels in her alias of Jodie Sinclair. Upon her death the grounds of her local football team Plymouth Parkway FC of which she ha been sponsor and fan was renamed Bolitho Park in her memory. While not much is known about Janie twelve years after her death, the popularity of her novels has never been higher hanks to their availability as eBooks and in print all over the …show more content…
The novel opens to the body of an eight-year-old Sharon Vickers who has been brutally murdered in the woods near her hometown of Little Endesley, England. The prime suspect is notorious child molester, Jacko Penhaligon who despite his reputation does not have a reputation for violence. The community wants him locked up but no one is forthcoming with any evidence against him. It soon begins to look like an opportune killing committed by a traveling stranger that the police would have no hope of ever apprehending. Other seemingly innocuous crimes are reported in Rickenham Green, a small town nearby. Could these events have anything with the ghastly crime that visited Little
Nonetheless, no one can dispute that she was a prolific writer that wrote some of the best detective crime mystery series over her short professional career. In addition ot the seven Trevelyan series and the twelve Roper novels, she churned out 4 free standing romantic thriller novels in her alias of Jodie Sinclair. Upon her death the grounds of her local football team Plymouth Parkway FC of which she ha been sponsor and fan was renamed Bolitho Park in her memory. While not much is known about Janie twelve years after her death, the popularity of her novels has never been higher hanks to their availability as eBooks and in print all over the …show more content…
The novel opens to the body of an eight-year-old Sharon Vickers who has been brutally murdered in the woods near her hometown of Little Endesley, England. The prime suspect is notorious child molester, Jacko Penhaligon who despite his reputation does not have a reputation for violence. The community wants him locked up but no one is forthcoming with any evidence against him. It soon begins to look like an opportune killing committed by a traveling stranger that the police would have no hope of ever apprehending. Other seemingly innocuous crimes are reported in Rickenham Green, a small town nearby. Could these events have anything with the ghastly crime that visited Little