Interview #70 | Author T. Orr Monro Discusses Her Career as a CSI and Her CSI Ally Dymond Book Series

British Murders with Stuart Blues

Stuart Blues

True Crime

4.7 • 699 Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

In this interview episode, I’m joined by T. Orr Monro.

Tina is a former Crime Scene Investigator, teacher, and now police journalist who had dreamed of becoming an author for as long as she can remember. That dream became a reality in 2020 when she was signed by HQ Stories for her crime series featuring a CSI named Ally Dymond.

Keen to shine a light on what happens behind the crime scene tape, Tina also chose to set her stories in North Devon, where she grew up. With its rugged shorelands and mysterious moorlands, North Devon becomes a character in its own right throughout her books.

Her debut novel Breakneck Point was published in 2022, followed by Slaughterhouse Farm in 2023. The third book in the series, Liars Island, was released in November 2024.

Grab T. Orr Monro’s books on Amazon:

Breakneck Point (The CSI Ally Dymond Book 1) | Amazon UK

Slaughterhouse Farm (The CSI Ally Dymond series Book 2) | Amazon UK

Liars Island (The CSI Ally Dymond series Book 3) | Amazon UK

***This interview was recorded on July 29, 2025.

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0:00.0	You are now listening to British Murders, a true crime podcast hosted by Stuart Blues.
0:20.6	Okay, everyone, I am here with a very special guest, T.R. Monroe, the T stands for Tina, by the way, in case you didn't know.
0:29.0	Tina is an author currently, but you've had an interesting career, and we're sort of on here to promote your newest book.
0:37.7	The paper Vap version came out July 3rd this year.
0:40.6	Lyers Island.
0:42.3	It's the third in a series of books.
0:43.8	But we will come on to that.
0:45.3	That's too recent.
0:46.4	I like to go back to the beginning.
0:48.5	I want to go all the way back to Hampshire,
0:51.9	which is my understanding is you were born in Hampshire? This is according to your
0:56.3	AMSA profile. Yes, that's right. It's a blank look. I'm still looking at you to go, and she
1:02.3	written this wrong? No, that's true. Yes, I was born in Hampshire in 1966, in older shots,
1:09.2	which probably tells you that I was an army brat.
1:12.4	Well, yeah, to be honest, I think my dad was born also in Oldershot, funnily enough,
1:18.1	also an army child. It's a big army place there, isn't it, Older Shot?
1:22.3	You didn't have to give your birth year, by the way. I wasn't going to ask for that.
1:26.7	That would be very rude
1:27.6	of me to do that. But you grew up in Devon? I did. I did. So my family moved to Devon when I was
1:34.8	three years old and I grew up here and stated so I was 18. I left 18 and I came back here
1:40.4	about 20 years ago with my own family. So I lived in a very kind of, in North Devon,
1:45.3	North Devon in the 60s and 70s was very remote. To be fair, it's still pretty remote.
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