Maureen Hanrahan writes from a kitchen table in regional Australia, with a road atlas she can’t stop opening and a dog who’d make a hopeless detective.
She’s been threatening to pack up the car and just go for years now — the kind of threat that gets a little more serious every winter. In the meantime, she writes about the two people who actually did it: Marnie and Doug, a long-married couple who sold the house, bought a motorhome, and now spend their retirement house-sitting their way around regional Australia — one small town, one new dog to make friends with, and one very inconvenient body at a time.
The Open Road Mysteries are warm, wry, and mostly bloodless: cosy crime for readers who want a genuine puzzle, a real marriage, and a death that’s discovered, never witnessed. Every clue is fair game, if you’re paying attention.
Book One, Vintage to Die For, and Book Two, Borrowed Time, are both out now. Maureen is, by her own admission, still working on the road atlas — and on the next book.