About
She writes murder in the prettiest places she can find.
A new portrait of Lucy is on its way.
Lucy Connelly — who also writes as Candace Havens — is a bestselling author of more than fifty books.
Her novels have been nominated for the RITAs, the Holt Medallion, the Write Touch Reader Awards and the National Readers’ Choice Awards, and she is a Barbara Wilson Award winner.
Away from the novels she is one of the nation’s leading entertainment journalists. She reviews film and television with Hawkeye in the Morning on 96.3 KSCS, and is a former President of the Television Critics Association. She also runs online writing workshops for other writers.
She travels for the settings — a Scottish isle, an Irish harbour village, a Welsh valley, a small Texas square — and comes home for the dogs.
Two names
Lucy Connelly and Candace Havens
As Lucy Connelly
The Scottish Isle, Mercy McCarthy and Welsh Village mysteries — village cozies set in Scotland, Ireland and Wales.
- Scottish Isle Mysteries Sea Isle, Scotland
- Mercy McCarthy Mysteries Shamrock Cove, Ireland
- Welsh Village Mysteries Dillynaidd, Wales
As Candace Havens
The Ainsley McGregor Mysteries, and the characters that went on to become a screen mystery franchise.
- Ainsley McGregor Mysteries Sweet River, Texas
- The screen mysteries Great American Media
The company
Mr. Poe and Elvis
Two dogs keep Lucy company through every draft. One of them — Mr. Poe — made it into the books, where he works alongside Mercy McCarthy in Shamrock Cove and is, frankly, the better detective.
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