Welcome to the Joyce Holms website. One of Scotland’s best selling crime writers, Joyce Holms is widely known as an effective teacher of Creative Writing. She gives workshops and classes to writing groups, readers’ groups, schools and writers circles as well as humorous and entertaining talks to organisations such as Rotary, Probus and Womens Guilds. You may know her best as the creator of the Fizz and Buchanan Mysteries. Her two detectives, Fizz Fitzpatrick and Tam Buchanan are both Edinburgh lawyers and their relationship supplies much of the humour that makes the books what they are.
For all books in the Fizz and Buchanan series click books above.

Some recent books in the series:

STOP PRESS
Good News for all Fizz and Buchanan and Joyce Holms fans. The Fizz and Buchanan Mystery series has been acquired by Bloody Brits a new imprint of the USA publisher Bywater Books. The first in the series Payment Deferred is now widely available through Barnes & Noble , Amazon(usa) and associates.
Amazon(uk) and many other booksellers.

Fizz has taken over and now wants her own blog, at least she has put on it some decent photos of her adventures and Auld Reekie. See photos on the Link below.

Fizzfitzpatrick

Contact Joyce at joyceholms@yahoo.co.uk

KIND WORDS FROM FELLOW AUTHORS
Read their comments in full on the News/Views page.

IAN RANKIN: "Joyce's humour is sharp without being nasty, her characters well drawn, and her Edinburgh a place you'll want to spend time in..... read her books."
PAULA GOSLING: "The Fizz and Buchanan novels sizzle with fun and story-telling skill. A new star has been born into the mystery world."
HRF KEATING: "Every now and again we are lucky enough to be given a crime writer whose work has that cherishable mark of difference. Joyce Holms is one of that rare band."
ALANNA KNIGHT: "Crime writing at it's best."
VAL McDERMID: "Engaging and entertaining...Deft, Daft and definitely delicious...Holms is a magician - the reader is so busy laughing the clues just slip by unnoticed."

CHECK THE DIARY FOR JOYCE'S FUTURE READINGS AND ENGAGEMENTS BY CLICKING here ON NEWS VIEWS PAGE..