Karen Charlton is the bestselling author of the Detective Lavender Mystery Series which is set in Regency London and features Bow Street's Principal Officer, Stephen Lavender and his humorous side-kick, Constable Ned Woods. In addition to this, she has written a stand-alone historical novel, Catching the Eagle based on the true story of her notorious criminal ancestor and a genealogical book, Seeking Our Eagle that explains how she and her late husband tracked down the jail-bird in their family tree. A former English teacher, with two grown-up children, Karen lives in a Yorkshire fishing village and now writes full-time.
