Welcome to the website of Elizabeth J. Duncan, author of the Penny Brannigan mystery series, set in North Wales.
The first book in the series, The Cold Light of Mourning, won both the William F. Deeck-Malice Domestic Grant (2006) for unpublished writers and the St. Martin’s Press/Malice (2008) award for best first novel and was nominated for both Agatha (U.S.) and Arthur Ellis (Canada) awards for best first mystery.

A Killer's Christmas in Wales, the third novel in the Penny Brannigan mystery series, will be published Oct. 25, 2011.

A Brush with Death, Elizabeth's second novel.

Her first novel, The Cold Light of Mourning, is now out in paperback.