Kate Hardy

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Kate is the award-winning author of more than 100 books for Harlequin Mills & Boon, and in 2023 she began the cosy crime Georgina Drake series for Storm Publishing.

For her romances, she’s won the RNA Shorter Fiction Award three times (formerly Liberta Books Shorter Fiction, the Romance Prize and the RoNA Rose): for ‘A Will, a Wish and a Wedding’ (2021), ‘Bound By a Baby’ (2014) and 'Breakfast at Giovanni's' (2008). She's been shortlisted six more times for the award, as well as for two Romantic Times awards. For the crime: there's no on-the-page gore (well... not much) so, if you like her romances, you'll definitely enjoy the Georgina Drake mysteries because it's basically the Kate Hardy you know plus more secondary characters and a body or two (!). If you're not a romance fan, you'll enjoy the characters and unravelling the puzzles.

Kate lives in Norwich in the east of England with her husband, two springer spaniels (Archie and Dexter, the Edit-paw-ial Assistants who are the precursor to Georgina's Drake's assistant Bert), and too many books to count. She's a bit of a nerd (cough, understatement) who loves music, cinema, the theatre, ballet, history, science, cross-stitch and messing about in the kitchen. She loves doing research, particularly if it's hands-on (and even more if it means sneaking in an extra visit to her two grown-up children, now they've graduated from uni and left home).

Reviewers say that her books are full of warmth, heart and charm - and also that you'll learn something new and interesting from them!

Kate has also written bestselling local history books under the name of Pamela Brooks.