Donna Moore
Donna Moore was born in 1962 and led a sheltered childhood in a small English village. A crime fiction fan from a young age, Donna wanted to be one of Enid Blyton’s Famous Five and fight crime with the aid of only a basket of cucumber sandwiches and a bottle of ginger beer. She spent her spare time following mysterious strangers around the village—especially those with cockney accents and a couple of days’ growth of stubble—until a complaint from the new local vicar put a stop to her sleuthing career. She now lives in Glasgow where she has a thrilling dual career as a mild-mannered pension consultant by day, and an unemployed superhero by night. For relaxation she listens to Dean Martin and The Ramones, watches screwball comedy and film noir, and enjoys salsa, cha cha cha and merengue - despite having two left feet.
“Helena Handbasket elbowed her way into my fantasy life, replacing several Hollywood starlets at one stroke”
John Baker, author of White Skin Man
“Bridget Jones meets Raymond Chandler meets Jeffrey Dahmer in …Go To Helena Handbasket, Donna Moore’s brilliant absurd romp of a detective novel”
Jason Starr, author of Twisted City
Books by Donna Moore
…Go To Helena Handbasket
On her latest case, wisecracking Private Investigator, Helena Handbasket, is faced with a lot of tough questions. Did Robin Banks have a hand in the theft of Evan Stubezzi’s jewels? And if so, was the hand one of those packed in ice in the freezer box that was delivered to his brother, Owen? Is there a serial killer on the loose? Or are all those handless corpses with scarlet fish sewn into their chest cavities purely coincidental? What shoes should you wear for a meeting with a killer? Why does her next-door neighbour smell of cheese? Which of her true loves is her real true love? And, more importantly, is there anything in the fridge for dinner?
Can our man-loving, cocktail-loving, food-loving, not-so-very-intrepid heroine answer these questions—any of them—without leaving a cliché unturned? Helena Handbasket, the debut novel by Donna Moore, is the Airplane of mystery novels.
World English Language Rights: PointBlank Press