How would you describe your family or your childhood?
I’ve been told by my new friends that they are my family now. I’m not sure why, the one I had before seemed perfectly adequate if a little sparse. I was brought up in a dance school, which for some reason, makes people laugh when I tell them.
My greatest talent?
Embroidery. My grandmother taught me. She said it would ‘fill a hole’. I’m not sure if she meant literally or metaphorically but she was correct in both aspects.
Significant other?
Bridie. Now and always.
Biggest challenge in relationships?
Usually other people. And unrealistic expectations.
Where do you live?
In a small cottage in a tiny village in the south of England. Not too near the coast to be bothered by tourists but with a thriving WI which Bridie love.
Do you have any enemies?
I would imagine that people would have to notice me first.
How do you feel about the place where you are now? Is there something you are particularly attached to, or particularly repelled by, in this place?
It’s messy and I don’t like mess. I find it hard to concentrate.
Do you have children, pets, both, or neither?
I had a cat once. Well, it kept coming into the garden. I did ask Bridie if we could keep it but she said I could barely look after myself let alone a cat.
What do you do for a living?
Breathe.
Greatest disappointment?
Learning that the fairies at the bottom of the garden photograph was false.
Greatest source of joy?
Well-kept inventories.
What do you do to entertain yourself or have fun?
Listen to the radio and play scrabble
What is your greatest personal failing, in your view?
Low expectations
What keeps you awake at night?
Being told I’m snoring
What is the most pressing problem you have at the moment?
Trying to remember the name of the photographer who took the fairies in the garden photograph
Is there something that you need or want that you don’t have? For yourself or for someone important to you?
Resolution
Why don’t you have it? What is in the way?
Because the world is a terribly messy place.
An unforgettable heroine is faced with an unbelievable crime in this snarky, charming locked-room mystery that asks: would you rather be snowed-in with a ghost, or a murderer?
A grand country estate.
On her last day as a detective, Midge McGowan is given the retirement present from hell: a ticket to a haunted house tour. She’ll have to spend a weekend ghost-hunting in an isolated mansion with a group of misfits, including a know-it-all paranormal investigator and a has-been pop star.
A puzzle that can't be solved.
The guests soon realize that the house has a mind of its own… and that they might not be the only ones there. An eerie figure appears on the property, and then the unthinkable happens: someone is murdered in a room that’s been locked from the inside.
A ghostly weekend they might not survive.
When a blizzard cuts the group off from help, the house’s own dark secrets begin to surface, and Midge can’t shake the creeping sense that they are walking into a nightmare. Could a ghost really be responsible? Or is the culprit one the guests, who have somehow, impossibly, endeared themselves to Midge?
Mystery Amateur Sleuth [William Morrow Paperbacks, On Sale: October 7, 2025, Paperback / e-Book, ISBN: 9780063472617 / eISBN: 9780063472587]
A weekend in a haunted house, misfit characters, and murder!
An Isolated Manor, A Vengeful Ghost, and a Haunted House Tour
Emma Mason is a former Detective Constable with Thames Valley Police. She now lives in Dorset with her husband, children and parents. She writes and works as a design consultant, creating virtual reality training for the defense sector. Murder Most Haunted is her debut novel.
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