by nikkicopleston | Dec 10, 2018 | Blog
Well, that didn’t take long, did it? I thought rewriting the first Jeff Lincoln book would take a year, maybe, but it took quite a bit longer than I expected. Still, I’m glad I did it. It was written so long ago, none of the characters even had a mobile...
by nikkicopleston | Aug 26, 2017 | Blog
When you’re out and about exploring new places, do you find yourself instinctively drawn to a particular sort of landscape? In spite of yourself, do you sense an affinity with the open, flat countryside of the Fens, or the dramatic ranges of the Peak District? I...
by nikkicopleston | Apr 14, 2017 | Blog
That famous quotation from L P Hartley’s ‘The Go Between’ is poignant – but also a bit meaningless. I’m not sure it’s true, either: the past can seem strange to us, looking back, but foreign? And did we do things so very...
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 | Jan 1, 2015 | Blog
New Year’s Day, 1959. It wasn’t a Bank Holiday in those days, just an ordinary day like any other – except that particular January 1st was the first day in our new home. I’d lived in the Midlands for the first 6 years of my life, but my...