Rhen Garland lives in Somerset, England with her music writing, folk-singing husband, approximately 4000 books, an equal number of ancient movies, and a large collection of passive-aggressive Tomtes.

She enjoys the countryside, peace, and Prosecco, and the works of Ngaio Marsh, Glady Mitchell, John Dickson Carr/Carter Dickson, Agatha Christie, Terry Pratchett, Simon R Green, and David and Leigh Eddings.

"I watch far too many old school murder mystery films, TV series, and 1980s action movies for it to be considered healthy.”

“A Portrait of Death” is the first novel in the Versipellis Mystery Series; Victorian era murder mysteries with a touch of the odd and a twist of the macabre.

Book two, "Death in the Sound" was released in December 2019.

Book three, tentatively titled "A Shadow of Death", is in the pre-production, multiple post-it-notes phase, and should be out in time for Yule 2020