About L M Krier, also known as Tottie Limejuice

Retired journalist, freelance copywriter and copy editor Lesley Krier Tither writes crime fiction, the Ted Darling Crime Series, under the name L M Krier, as well as travel memoirs under the pen name of Tottie Limejuice. Most people now call her Tottie or Tots.

The Ted Darling crime books are set in Lesley's home-town, Stockport, on the edge of Greater Manchester. Books in the series: The First Time Ever, Baby's Got Blue Eyes, Two Little Boys, When I'm Old and Grey, Shut Up and Drive, Only the Lonely, Wild Thing, Walk On By, Preacher Man, Cry for the Bad Man, Where the Girls Are, Down Down Down, The Cuckoo is a Pretty Bird, Dirty Old Town, The End of the Line, It's Oh So Quiet, A Woman's Heart, No Way to Say Goodbye, Everybody Hurts Sometimes, Sweet Little Lies, and Not to Tell (22 books)

The First Time Ever is the retrospectively-written prequel to the series so can be read first or second. It is available translated into French under the title Darling.

Lesley is also the author of the dark crime fiction book, Looking for Lulu, under the pen name of Carl Granger. It came about because of a claim someone made that readers could always tell a woman writing as a man. Lesley took up the challenge - nobody guessed!

All books are available from Amazon (in most countries) in eBook and paperback format and the series prequel, The First Time Ever, is now available as an audiobook, read by professional voice artist Christopher Corcoran. None of Lesley's books include AI in any form.

Lesley is a former journalist, working as both a criminal court and coroner's court reporter. She also worked as a case tracker for the Crown Prosecution Service, and for a firm investigating irregularities in offshore finance. Her other jobs have included owning and running a holiday riding centre and acting as a 'charity mugger', lying in wait to sign up shoppers for a wildlife charity.

She secured her first major writing contract at the age of sixteen when she sold a television piece to a Hollywood production company, for what seemed at the time to be a fortune. Her newspaper editor father claimed it was more than he had ever been paid for a single piece of writing.

Her interests centre around nature and wildlife and encompass dogs, wild camping and organic gardening. She lives in the Auvergne region of Central France and holds dual French/British nationality. Her current dog is a rescued border collie, Rosie.

Writing as Tottie Limejuice, Lesley has also published six books in the Sell the Pig travel memoirs series: Sell the Pig, Is That Billinge Lump?, Mother Was It Worth It? Biff the Useless Mention, Angling Bumateurs, and Trot On!

She also writes humorous travelogues as Tottie Limejuice: the Tottie's Travels series: Hobbit House in Italy, Two Jills and a Tots, and Pride Comes Before a Bedbug. In addition she has produced a humorous look behind the scenes of novel writing, No Girl on this Train, jointly written with Kate Pill.

Lesley also writes children's fiction, mystery/adventure, as L M Kay: The Dog with the Golden Eyes, shortly being published in parallel French/English text, for learners of either languages, for ages 7+ - 70+.

Want to chat with Lesley? You'll find a We Love Ted Darling group on Facebook, or look out for the Ted Darling Crime Series website which has links to all her books.

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