by nikkicopleston | Oct 26, 2017 | Blog
The opening line of ‘A Saintly Grave Disturbed’ had been kicking around in my brain for years. Originally, it introduced one of the various sequels to ‘The Price of Silence’ that I embarked upon before eventually starting (and finishing, and...
by nikkicopleston | Feb 10, 2017 | Blog
Here’s a bit from The Shame of Innocence. D.I. Jeff Lincoln has bought a house ‘in need of modernisation’ as the estate agents say. Its garden backs onto Fountains, a more modern place that’s been empty ever since he moved into the Old...
by nikkicopleston | Jan 13, 2017 | Publications
The Shame of Innocence was published by SilverWood Books in November 2016, in paperback and as an eBook. A crime novel set in Wiltshire, it features D I Jeff Lincoln, and concerns the murders of two teenage girls and the disappearance of a third. The pursuit of the...
by nikkicopleston | Aug 23, 2016 | Blog
I’ve known Lynne Blackwood since we were at school together, but then there was a big, big gap – from when she moved away from Salisbury in 1968 to her return to England about 35 years later. In between, she’d had three children and travelled the...
by nikkicopleston | Jul 25, 2016 | Blog
“Thanks but no thanks…” Coping with rejection – or not My crime novel, The Shame of Innocence, was pretty much finished at the start of this year, and I approached agents with the usual submission of the first few hundred words and a synopsis....