I was lucky enough to be able to take a couple of days off last week and jaunt down to two places that are fast becoming favourites, Devon and Cornwall. Each is associated with a writer I really love. Torquay in Devon is where Agatha Christie grew up, and Greenway was her holiday home near Brixham. Then Cornwall was the inspiration for many of Daphne du Maurier’s novels. They are very different writers – Agatha Christie is often criticised for…
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It’s wonderful to have fellow author and editor Sue Barnard on my blog today. Sue is a very talented writer with five novels to her name. Here she is introducing her sixth book: Hello…
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Well, it’s been a bit of a whirlwind month, but one of the nicest parts happened yesterday morning, when I opened a package containing… book number 6 in my London Murder Mysteries series, The…
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Well, I’ve done my first teaching gig. Who would have thought it? Though I come from a long(ish) line of teachers, I’ve never for a moment felt the urge to take up the chalk…
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Crime Fiction Workshop, Evesham Festival of Words If you’ve always wanted to write your own crime novel, but wondered how to go about it, do come along to my Crime Fiction Workshop at the…
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I have a particularly delicious treat on the blog today as bestselling author Isabella May is here to introduce her new novel, The Ice Cream Parlour. Set in Capri and Bath, it’s a lip-smacking,…
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I will be at marvellous independent bookshop Rye Books this evening from 7pm to read from my London Murder Mysteries series and to join award-winning local author Hester Vaizey for a Q&A session. Hester will be…
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Do you actually need the audiobook version of Death in Dulwich, I hear you wonder? There you are, sitting on your snuggly sofa, still surrounded by lovely presents that you got at Christmas. Why…
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It might seem as though there could be precious few mysteries left in Dulwich for my single mum amateur sleuth, Beth Haldane, to solve – but luckily that’s not the case at all, as…
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I’m really rather stunned to say that 100,000 pages of Death in Dulwich have been read so far. It’s an odd statistic – if you say it quickly, it sounds quite amazing. If you…