Each week, we invite our Crime Cymru authors to tell us a bit about themselves and their writing. This week, Beverley Jones talks about the Oregon road trip that inspired her new psychological thriller The Beach House and the stories she waited years to share.

Location, location, location! Shame about the neighbours…

‘The body isn’t the first thing I see when I step into the kitchen, it’s the knife, the rope and the handcuffs…’

This is certainly not the welcome Grace Jensen expects when she returns to her smart beachfront home in a tiny community in the Pacific Northwest. Everyone in the town assumes Grace has had a visit from a would-be sex attacker, that a ‘home invasion’ has been interrupted. But Grace suspects otherwise, because she knows she left her early life in another small seaside village, in South Wales, for a very good reason. Maybe that reason has…