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Friday, 5 June 2026

My Coffee Pot Book Tour Guest: Julia Ibbotson - Daughter of Mercia

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Name: Julia Ibbotson

Book Title: Daughter of Mercia

Series: Dr Anna Petersen Mysteries, book #1

Publication Date: June 6th, 2025

Publisher: Archbury Books

Pages: 301 pages

Genre: medieval dual-time mystery romance

Echoes of the past resonate across the centuries as Dr Anna Petersen, a medievalist and runologist, is struggling with past trauma and allowing herself to trust again. When archaeologist (and Anna's old adversary) Professor Matt Beacham unearths a 6th century seax with a mysterious runic inscription, and reluctantly approaches Anna for help, a chain of events brings the past firmly back into her present. And why does the burial site also contain two sets of bones, one 6th century and the other modern?

As the past and present intermingle alarmingly, Anna and Matt need to work together to solve the mystery of the seax runes and the seemingly impossible burial, and to discover the truth about the past. Tensions rise and sparks fly between Anna and Matt. But how is 6th century Lady Mildryth of Mercia connected to Anna? Can they both be the Daughter of Mercia?

For fans of Barbara Erskine, Elena Collins, Pamela Hartshorne, Susanna Kearsley and Christina Courtenay.

Buy Link:

Universal Buy Link: https://myBook.to/DOMercia

This title is available to read on #KindleUnlimited.

Author Bio:

Julia Ibbotson is fascinated by the medieval world and the concept of time. She is the author of historical mysteries with a frisson of romance. Her books are evocative of time and place, well-researched and uplifting page-turners. Her current series focuses on early medieval time-slip/dual-time mysteries.

Julia read English at Keele University, England, specialising in medieval language / literature / history, and has a PhD in socio-linguistics. After a turbulent time in Ghana, West Africa, she became a school teacher, then a university academic and researcher. Her break as an author came soon after she joined the RNA’s New Writers’ Scheme in 2015, with a three-book deal from Lume Books for a trilogy (Drumbeats) set in Ghana in the 1960s.

She has published five other books, including A Shape on the Air, an Anglo-Saxon timeslip mystery, and its two sequels The Dragon Tree and The Rune Stone. Her latest novel is the first of a new series of Anglo-Saxon dual-time mysteries, Daughter of Mercia, where echoes of the past resonate across the centuries.

Her books will appeal to fans of Barbara Erskine, Pamela Hartshorne, Susanna Kearsley, and Christina Courtenay. Her readers say: ‘Julia’s books captured my imagination’, ‘beautiful story-telling’, ‘evocative and well-paced storylines’, ‘brilliant and fascinating’ and ‘I just couldn’t put it down’.

Author Links:

Website:

https://juliaibbotsonauthor.com

Twitter / X:

https://twitter.com/@juliaibbotson

Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/JuliaIbbotsonauthor

Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/julia.ibbotson

Bluesky:

https://bsky.app/profile/juliaibbotson.bsky.social

Pinterest:

https://www.pinterest.co.uk/juliai1

Amazon Author Page:

https://Author.to/JuliaIbbotsonauthor

Goodreads:

https://goodreads.com/juliaibbotson

Follow the tour:

Twitter Handles: @JuliaIbbotson @cathiedunn @maryanneyarde

Instagram Handles: @julia.ibbotson @thecoffeepotbookclub @yardereviews

Hashtags: #DaughterOfMercia #BookBirthday #medieval #dualtime #timeslip #BlogTour #ReaderReach

Tour Schedule Page:

https://thecoffeepotbookclub.blogspot.com/2026/04/blog-tour-daughter-of-mercia-by-julia-ibbotson.html

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Thursday, 4 June 2026

Rachel's Random Resources Book Tour of: Deadly Truths by Paul Gitsham

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Deadly Truths

How do you solve a murder when you’re shut out of the investigation?

Young detectives, Robinson Ellington Foxe and Amy Kennard, don’t want to work at Coventry’s Moat Lane police station. Neither do their colleagues want them there. But it’s the last chance for two officers for whom doing the right thing has cost them their futures.

Despite a murder on their patch, they are lumbered with investigating a series of high-profile burglaries. But when a thief is killed in the house of an influential businessman, Foxe and Kennard are convinced it is linked to their cases and want in.

The official investigation is a whitewash, but Robbie and Amy keep investigating anyway. As they uncover a web of deceit and corruption, reaching to the very top of the force, their own difficult histories are weaponised against them, and they find themselves fighting for their careers and their lives.

Purchase Links

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Deadly-Truths-Foxe-Kennard-Investigation-ebook/dp/B0GT9GXVZ3

https://www.amazon.com/Deadly-Truths-Foxe-Kennard-Investigation-ebook/dp/B0GT9GXVZ3

Author Bio –

Paul Gitsham is the author of the Foxe and Kennard British detective series, the DCI Warren Jones series and the standalone domestic thriller, The Aftermath.

Brought up in Coventry, he started his career as a biologist. After gaining a PhD in molecular biology, he worked in laboratories in Manchester and Toronto, before retraining as a science teacher. Along the way he had spells as the world’s most over-qualified receptionist and spent time working for a major UK bank, ensuring that terrorists, foreign dictators and other international ne’er do wells hadn’t embarrassed the institution by managing to deposit their ill-gotten gains in a Children’s Trust Fund.

Paul’s final school reports from primary school said that he would never achieve anything if his handwriting didn’t improve. A somewhat kinder note urged him to become the next Roald Dahl. If anything, his handwriting has got worse and unless Mr Dahl also wrote police procedurals under a pseudonym, he has failed on both counts.

Paul is a member of the Crime Writers Association and the International Thriller Writers organisation and lives with his wife in the West Midlands in a house with more books than shelf space.

Social Media Links –

Instagram/Threads @paulgitsham

Facebook@dcijones (Appears as Paul Gitsham Author)

X/Twitter @dcijoneswriter