Bethany Willcock is a Christian South African homeschool-grad in her twenties, who loves cats, coffee, and all things vintage. Mystery and historical fiction have always been her favourite genres, and she combines the two into tales with God-honouring themes. So far she’s published three What Came After mysteries – an Edwardian-era detective series set in London with connections to Sherlock Holmes; had a 1947-set mystery, And As She Talked, published in the Novelists in November anthology; had the sequel, Like Honey of Bees, published in the Fingerprints in Frost anthology, and won the historical fiction category of a writing contest with her microstory, Beyond These Walls of Sorrow.

Good literature was always an important part of her childhood, and Bethany draws inspiration from the wonderful books she grew up on such as The Secret Garden, Heidi, Twenty and Ten, the Little House books, The Famous Five, Tintin, The Lone Pine series, and of course, Jane Austen, Dickens, and Sherlock Holmes, to name just a few. She is also passionate about classical music and art and spends a lot of her free time painting. She runs a home bakery called BakerStreat, named after the Sherlock Holmes books.