Coming soon Yvonne's second novel, A Web of Murder. Featuring, once again, Jonathan Adams and his investigative team.

Ex London copper Jake Mortimer is mostly happy with his new life in Provence, his guiltiest pleasure being an occasional look at the web cam scanning his former patch – until the night he sees the terrified face of a young girl and her unseen assailant.  Forced to reopen bridges he thought closed forever, Jake sets in motion a sequence of events that threatens to tear his new life apart as new friends, former colleagues and unknown adversaries become entangled in a web of corruption and murder.

A Web of Murder is a gritty, witty contemporary take on the police thriller – a bleak, recognisable view of modern Britain shot through with the gallows humour of the career copper and flashes of Provencal sunshine.

Friends, lovers, family, colleagues – who can you trust?



Published by Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Limited, under their Vanguard print her first novel "A Time to Die" is already available to buy on line as will this latest venture. Click Here for details

Since the launch of Yvonne's debut novel "A Time to Die" on June 25th 2007 Yvonne has been working hard to market both her book and herself at various events around the country. These included :-

Book signing and fund raising evening for Cancer Research, Keinton Mandeville, Somerset July 07

An Evening of Murder and Magic at Swanley Library, Kent February 08 together with author Sue Rule promoting her novel Cloak of Magic.

Running a discussion group on crime and murder mystery at the Southern Writers' Conference, Chichester June 08

Inclusion on the Vice Chairmans Panel at the Southern Writers' Conference, Chichester June 08

Book signing evening at Southern Writer's Conference, Chichester 08.

A Time to Die was also voted choice of the month by two independent book groups. One based in Rainham in Kent and the other in Keinton Mandeville in Somerset.

Quotes from readers of A Time To Die

Great sense of time and place' - J G Somerset
A cracking good read' - G W Strood, Kent
Top book. A thrill roller coaster and page-turner. No fingernails left, - M O Richmond Upon Thames
An enjoyable read from cover to cover, looking forward to the next one’ M E Rainham Kent.
Please tell me he gets his leg over in the next book ‘– TB Rochester, Kent

Rainham Book Shop

The Rainham Book Shop has been very supportive.

Yvonne is seen here with family and friends at a book signing.

Yvonne Hughes lives in Kent with her husband Gordon.  Her grown up children Nichola and Jonathan live in dread of being featured in her work (little do they know).

A weaver of tales and stories from the moment she learned to speak, a prerequisite being the eldest of six, beating her identical twin into the world by twenty minutes. 

Her interest in the effects of crime and deviance began when she studied with the Open University, gaining a BA in Social Sciences. Yvonne knows her subject well and uses her own background in terms of time and place in all her novels so that they have a resonance and a truth that sets them apart.