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Karen J Carlisle is a writer of Victorian mysteries, steampunk, fantasy, and cosies with a twist.
Illustrator. Gardener. Chocoholic and tea lover.

Blood Ties is Coming 17th September, 2023
Because villains are the heroes of their own story.

A dark mystery on the high seas in a new series.
eBook
and paperback pre-order available Direct from author or from online stores

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Book launch 17th September 12 noon (Adelaide/ACST)
live on Facebook and youTube

Karen is currently writing the second book in her steampunk adventure series, The Department of Curiosities, set mostly in Adelaide.

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September is Liptember – raising awareness for women’s mental health. Find out more in my blog post.

Other books include:

Her latest release is the revamped release of The Department of Curiosities, the first book in her second series (duology) of books set in her Victorian steampunk world. This series is set in early to mid 1880s, with new characters, and is a rollicking steampunk tale of adventure, a heroine, mad scientists, traitors and secrets. All for the good of the Empire.
(Second edition, 2023 – eBook and paperback. Available now – from author and online)

 View Booktrailers HERE

 

Cogs and Conspiracies is a steampunk short story collection:- Five short tales set in a world of steampunk and alternate history, with adventures from England to the Antipodes. Here be villains, gadgets, mechanical creatures, secrets and conspiracies. All in time for tea.
Available in Paperback and eBook direct from authoror from online stores. (2023)

Mrs Hudson Investigates – original short eBook series of Holmesian mysteries featuring Mrs Hudson, John Watson, and Mary Watson.

With the help of Mary Watson, Mrs Hudson proves she is just as canny as the Great Detective. I mean, what can’t a woman do if she puts her mind to it?

Find out about Karen’s other short story collections HERE

The Adventures of Viola Stewart is a three-book series of Victorian mysteries, set in the late 1880s. Viola Stewart is a widowed optician with a penchant for detectiving who, with her friend, Doctor Henry Collins, chases secret societies and uncovers nefarious plots. All three books in The Adventures of Viola Stewart have been re-released with new shiny covers.
Buy them now – DIRECT FROM AUTHOR or online – via Karen’s shop.

Her ongoing series, The Aunt Enid Mysteries, is cosy(ish) fantasy mysteries set in Adelaide.
Great Aunt Enid is your average seventy-something year old. She loves to cook, is a regular at bingo and spends hours in her garden, talking to her army of garden gnomes and fussing over the colour of her hydrangeas…
And only she stands between the Dark and the fate of the world.

Aunt Enid’s back, but something’s changed…
A deal with fairies… to solve a mystery… and prevent a war.
Fairies and magic: It’s all real!

Find out how Arthur Conan Doyle’s visit to Adelaide in 1920, and Adelaide’s mysterious fairy doors inspired the book.

Book 2,  A Fey Tale, Now available direct from author
(Buy your print copy here – Australia)
or as eBook or print online.

 

 

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