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.
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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 the church parsonage with her husband, Don, Ollie the Chihuahua, and Winifred the cat, all of whom have opinions about the writing schedule.
