Inspiration, Persperation & Paris
I’ve been travelling, researching and thinking about the importance or passion, dedication and enthusiasm. Plus I had pizza with some insiders.
Researching London Locations
The Danny Quadrilogy The Danny Bird Mysteries are set in Contemporary London, which I treat as both a real and a fantastic place. When I started writing the books I looked around for a part of London that I knew well enough to be able to sketch it, but I deliberately...
Creepy Gothic Loveliness and Perfect for The Season. The Twelve Strange Days of Christmas reviewed.
And Syd Moore’s The Twelve Strange Days of Christmas is one of the very good ones. It’s a creepy gruesome wonderfully funny selection box filled with shocks, surprises, laugh-out-loud gruesomeness*, surreality, and some wonderfully emotional moments.
On My Life by Angela Clarke: A damn good page turner and more
Claustrophobic, brilliantly written, damn good page turner Framed. Imprisoned. Pregnant. Jenna thought she had the perfect life: a loving fiancé, a great job, a beautiful home. Then she finds her stepdaughter murdered; her partner missing. And the police think she did...
‘Violet’ by SJI Holliday is Deliciously Decadently Dark
There's a reason why mother told us not to talk to strangers... Carrie's best friend has an accident and can no longer make the round-the-world trip they'd planned together, so Carrie decides to go it alone. Violet is also travelling alone, after splitting up with her...
Made in Scotland from Murders…
...puts on best t-shirt. Awaits process servers. So last year my esteemed publisher Fahrenheit Press issued a T-Shirt celebrating Bloody Scotland. Bloody Scotland, apart from being something that English Torys call the country to the North, is one the Premier Crime...