Julia Chapman is the author of the internationally bestselling crime series, The Dales Detectives.
Born in Coventry, she has a wanderlust that has kept her moving and has followed her restless feet to Japan, Australia, the USA, France and the Yorkshire Dales. She spent over a decade as a teacher of English as a Foreign Language and has dabbled in bookselling, pawnbroking and waitressing. She also ran an auberge in the French Pyrenees for six years which provided the setting for her first series, The Fogas Chronicles, published under her real name, Julia Stagg.
But once a Coventry kid, always a Coventry kid! For the setting of her latest crime series, Julia has finally returned to her childhood home - metaphorically, at least. If she stops running and cycling so much, the first of The Two-Tone Detectives series, Two Tones of Murder, should be on shelves by spring 2027 and will be published by Pan Macmillan.
