Ilsa Evans writes the Nell Forrest Mystery series which is set in Australia. It features journalist Nell Forrest-- a (slightly younger) Miss Marple. For Nell Forrest, life in the little town of Majic is not going smoothly. One of her five daughters has just swapped university for fruit-picking, another is about to hit puberty, while a third keeps leaving aggrieved messages on the answering machine. On top of all this, her mother is infuriating and it's only been a matter of months since Nell lost her husband of twenty-five years. It's no surprise, then, that she is even struggling to write her weekly column...
