Published · Gothic mystery
Sketched in Blood
Published in A Bouquet of Secrets, a collection of gothic-themed mysteries.
View the anthology on Amazon.co.ukMysteries · Folklore · Hidden histories
Every old story leaves a shadow.
Shaped by Italian folklore, Irish experience and lives lived between cultures, Julia F. Clifford writes atmospheric mysteries, speculative fiction and stories for younger readers, where identity, memory and hidden histories refuse to stay buried.
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Meet the published stories
Two mysteries, two very different themes, and two anthologies you can read today.
Published · Christmas mystery
The Time Befana Saved Christmas
Published in A Right Cozy Christmas Crime, a festive collection of warm-hearted mysteries.
View and buy the anthology on Amazon.co.ukWork in progress · Featured novel
The Good Walker
A Serena Walker MysteryThe
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A vanished cousin. A woman condemned as a witch. Five centuries of unfinished business.
During All Saints’ Mass at St John Lateran, Serena Walker’s cousin disappears. The clues lead to Maddalena, a sixteenth-century Benandante trapped between worlds.
Serena cannot save Gemma without helping the woman who stole her away.
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Hi everyone!
I’m Julia.
An Italian writer in Ireland, endlessly fascinated by folklore, overlooked histories and ordinary people facing extraordinary choices.
I write across age groups and forms, but my stories return to the same questions: What do we inherit? What do we owe the past? And what happens when the impossible knocks at the door?
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