Leominster Councillor uses personal experience to pen transgender crime novel

[Bardoux]

Leominster Councillor Peter Ellis used personal experience to pen first crime novel about transgender private detective

http://www.ledburyreporter.co.uk/news/10668793.Councillor_used_personal_experience_to_pen_first_crime_novel_about_transgender_private_detective/?ref=rss
Jess Phillips, 12th September

A Leominster town councillor has used personal experiences to write his first crime novel about a transgender private detective.

Her own sense of identity is tested in the search to find the murderer, and Peter's attempt to tackle transgenderism in the novel stems from his own experiences.

He said: "I'm actually transgendered myself so I'm not transsexual but I do spend some time in my feminine mode – as Penny Ellis – although not generally in Leominster."

"I suppose I have been conscious of it for quite a long time but it's now 30 years since my wife has known and she has been very supportive and helped me come to terms with it."

[DriftingCrow]

I love crime novels, I'll have to put it on my (extremely long) list.