The Hereford Times

Debut novel from former Cathedral School student

12:20pm Thursday 24th April 2008

A FORMER Hereford Cathedral school pupil, inspired by a stay at the home of one of the most famous names in crime fiction, has recently published her first novel, The Kaleidoscope Man, and will be signing copies of the book at Waterstones in Hereford on Saturday, May 17.

Elizabeth Hopkinson, 24, wrote her first ‘book’, The Mystery of the Ball, when she was just eight, while her family was staying with Ruth Rendell at her Suffolk home and, by the age of 16, she was writing seriously, getting up at 6am to write before going to school. The Kaleidoscope Man opens with a grotesque act of hatred, which leads Alison Manning on a journey into the past to discover the horrifying truth about the man she thought she knew and with whom she had shared her life until his inexplicable disappearance.

Lizzie, who lives in Clee Hill, has already written a second book featuring the same detective and aims to create a series of detective novels with a modern twist using the same character.

The Kaleidoscope Man by Elizabeth Hopkinson is set to hit the bookshelves next month priced £8.50 or click on the link below.