I am the pastor of a small New England congregation and the author of the Sister Agatha and Father Selwyn Mysteries, the novel Widow’s Walk, and books for children. I compose sermons and plot murders, and I try not to let the two overlap.
Bible stories retold for transgender and gender-expansive children — each with a reflection written to the child and questions to talk about together. Every child in these pages is called by name.
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A gentle guide to grief for a child whose dog has died — honest about sadness, careful with hope, and written to be read together, probably with tissues.
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The abbey’s sexton is found dead under an avalanche of the nuns’ award-winning gouda. The constable calls it an accident. Sister Agatha has read enough mysteries to know better.
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The president of the Village Art Society is found dead on the parish hall floor as Advent begins. Sister Agatha intends to close the case by Christmas.
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Ten new nuns arrive from Los Angeles, a reporter is found dead on the beach, and a missing key turns up baked into the king’s cake for Epiphany. Sister Agatha does not believe in selfies gone bad.
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A box of her late brother’s belongings arrives with a warning about a sleeping dragon and a gold pin with a past. What begins as grief becomes a murder forty years in the keeping. Sister Agatha’s team includes a novice on a pink Vespa and a nun with a ham radio.
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A small coastal town in Downeast Maine, a community holding itself together, and a hurricane bearing down on both. A story about hope and what it costs to keep it.
“A church community discovers the power of compassion, faith, and coming together.” —Foreword Reviews
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A Yorkshire Christmas, a Guideposts mystery, and a camel that is not where it is supposed to be.
Buy on Amazon →Jane Willan is the pastor of Plantsville Congregational Church, UCC, in Connecticut. She holds a Master of Divinity from Vanderbilt Divinity School and a Master of Science from Boston University, and before ministry she worked as a science editor in Boston.
She is the author of the Sister Agatha and Father Selwyn Mysteries, set in a Welsh convent where the nuns make prize-winning cheese and occasionally find a body in it; the novel Widow’s Walk; a Guideposts mystery; and books for children on faith, identity, and grief. She writes at five in the morning, before the church needs her.
She lives in a 130-year-old church parsonage with her husband, Don, Ollie the Chihuahua, and Winifred the cat, all of whom have opinions about the writing schedule.
