I’m at Yeovil Library this Friday!

I’m at Yeovil Library this Friday!

Looking forward to talking at Yeovil Library  on Friday 13th October, as part of Somerset Libraries’ National Libraries Week celebrations. And what a week it’s been! I’ve already seen the evidence of libraries’ importance: at Wells Library last...
Too many carts, or, the benefits of reading aloud

Too many carts, or, the benefits of reading aloud

At the last of this summer’s writing boot camp sessions, Brenda was reading from her new work-in-progress. She’d only just started writing it – a story set in the countryside in the early years of the 20th Century – so as she was reading it...
If looks could kill…

If looks could kill…

Maybe it’s because I’ve got a smiley face. Maybe it’s because I look like a comfortably upholstered ex-librarian. Whatever the reason, people seem surprised to learn I write crime fiction. Not ‘cosy crime’ either, but murder mysteries...
That difficult (earlier) book

That difficult (earlier) book

The Shame of Innocence is selling well and DI Jeff Lincoln is gathering quite a fan club.   But this wasn’t his first adventure.  He was bumbling around in Barbury long before he crossed swords with Donal Finnegan.  Before he moved into the Old Vicarage, he was...