Imogen Penrose grew up in libraries and ended up in Bloomsbury, which is a perfectly natural progression. She writes The Bloomsbury Bookshop Mysteries, a cozy series set in central London and following Cleo Marchmont, an amateur sleuth who inherits her great-aunt's struggling bookshop and discovers it comes with three complications: a tabby cat with opinions, the ghost of her great-aunt who refuses to leave the premises, and a body in the Russian literature section.
She trusts her readers to keep up, prefers specific details to ornate ones, and is fond of small London neighbourhoods that feel like villages. She lives in a flat with a view of a Bloomsbury garden square and a tabby cat called Boswell, who is named for Samuel Johnson's biographer and who appears in her newsletter rather more often than is strictly necessary.
She is at her happiest in second-hand bookshops, at her most reliable on her morning walk through Bedford Square, and at her least useful before the second cup of tea.
