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Diana
Hockley lives in a southeast Queensland country town,
surrounded by her husband, Andrew, two 19 year-old cats and
four pet rats. She and her husband once owned and operated
the famous Mouse Circus which travelled and performed
throughout Queensland and northern New South Wales for ten
years. She does not have any mice these days, but is the
Mouse Judge for the Queensland Fancy Rat & Mouse Club shows.
She is a
voracious reader, dedicated community volunteer and
presenter of a weekly classical program on community radio.
She has
three adult children and three grandchildren, two of whom
have pet rats.
After a
break of thirty-odd years, Diana started writing seriously
again 2005 and has had articles and short stories accepted
and published worldwide in a variety of magazines. Mezzo
Magazine USA, Honestly Woman (Australia) the Highlander,
Austin Times and Austin UK, Australian Women’s Weekly, It’s
A Rats World, Solaris UK, Literary Journal of University of
Michigan USA, Foliate Oak, children’s website Billabong. In
2006, she was awarded Scenic Rim Art Festival prizes for
poetry and fiction.
Since
that time she has published two crime novels, The Naked Room
and The Celibate Mouse. Her next novel, After Ariel, is in
the process of procrastination.
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The Celibate Mouse
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Shell-shocked from a tragedy at
work and an acrimonious domestic upheaval,
Detective Senior Sergeant Susan Prescott
flees town to recuperate, but fate has other
ideas.
Her plan to house-sit for
relatives in a rural community is shattered,
when Susan witnesses a very public murder
within an hour of her arrival. |
Things turn sinister
after an encounter with an elderly lady; a hint of a long ago murder is
not a secret with which Susan wants to be entrusted. Enter Detective
Inspector David Maguire whom she has not seen for thirteen years and who
is assigned to the case, which sends her into a further tailspin.
Against her better judgment, Susan is drawn inexorably into the
investigation, surrounded by menacing strangers whose private agendas
threaten her safety and soon, her life.
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The Celibate Mouse
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