The Wild Thyme Farm Murder is the new novel by UEA alumna Judi Daykin and was published by Joffe Books in March. It is the sixth book in her Detective Sara Hirst series. Judi graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Crime Fiction) at UEA in 2019. Her first novel Under Violent Skies was shortlisted for the Little, Brown / UEA writers prize and published by Joffe in 2020. It was longlisted for the Crime Writers’ Association John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger. Her second novel Into Deadly Storms was published by Joffe in 2021 and was followed by A Brutal Season. In 2021 Judi also published Wayland Babes with Hobeck Books. Her fourth in the series An Artful Murder was published by Joffe in 2022, and was followed by The Norfolk Beach Murders in 2023. Judi is a working actor with a portfolio career spanning twenty years of theatre, film and television, directing, workshops and medical roleplay. She runs her own theatre company, Broad Horizons, specialising in commissioning new plays recovering and retelling women’s stories.
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