Books by Lucienne Boyce

Lucienne Boyce is a historical novelist and women's suffrage historian. Her first historical novel, 'To The Fair Land' (SilverWood Books), an eighteenth-century thriller set in Bristol and the South Seas, was published in 2012. Her second novel, 'Bloodie Bones: A Dan Foster Mystery' (SilverWood Books, 2015), is the first of the Dan Foster mysteries and follows the fortunes of a Bow Street Runner who is also an amateur pugilist. 'Bloodie Bones' was winner of the Historical Novel Society Indie Award 2016 and was also a semi finalist for the M M Bennetts Award for Historical Fiction 2016. // 'The Fatal Coin', a novella which is a prequel to Bloodie Bones, was published as an ebook by SBooks in 2017. // In 2013 Lucienne published 'The Bristol Suffragettes' (SilverWood Books), a history of the suffragette movement in Bristol and the West Country. She regularly gives talks and leads walks about women's suffrage movement. In 2014 she contributed a chapter about women's war work and the vote to 'Bristol and the First World War', the book published by the Bristol Festival of Ideas for its Great Reading Adventure 2014. She has written a chapter on Welsh suffragist Winifred Coombe Tennant for inclusion in a forthcoming book on Welsh women's history to be published by the University of Wales Press. She is currently working on the third of the full-length Dan Foster Mysteries, and a biography of suffragette Millicent Browne. Lucienne is on the steering committee of the West of England and South Wales Women's History Network. She was born in Wolverhampton and now lives in Bristol, which is the setting and inspiration for much of her work.