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The James Findlay Journals
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Welcome
Karen J Carlisle is a writer of Victorian mysteries, steampunk, fantasy, and cosies with a twist.
Illustrator. Gardener. Chocoholic and tea lover.
Karen is currently working on a secret project, and writing the second book in her steampunk adventure series, The Department of Curiosities, set mostly in Adelaide.
Karen’s latest published story:
What would the Great Detective be like if Sherlock Holmes was a woman?
In the tall tales of Sherlock is a Girl’s Name we answer this question, following Sherlock into deep space, 1990s Russian, Victorian London, contemporary USA, worlds of magic, and more.
This is a collection of stories written by women – where Sherlock identifies as a woman – and My story, The Case of the Toxic Teacake is one of them!
Pre-orders (20% off) are now open via Clan DeStine Press (Australia) or Improbable Press (UK). US purchase link is available via the Clan Destine link. The anthology will be published at the end of April, 2024.
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Other books include:
Ever wonder that happened to Doctor Jack (The Adventures of Viola Stewart)? His journey continues in the first book of the James Findlay Journals.
Because villains are the heroes of their own story.
A dark mystery on the high seas in a new series.
Available direct from author in eBook and paperback
or from online stores.
View Booktrailer HERE and Don’t forget your Book Tea!
Karen has collaborated with Adelaide tea merchant Wyverstone Tea to create Crimson Smog, a book a tea blend to enjoy while reading Blood Ties. Read more about Book Teas HERE. (links to Wyverstone tea)
The Department of Curiosities is 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, with new cover. 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.
