Monsters in the Mist
Monsters in the Mist is the third book I've written featuring Galbraith and Pole. Galbraith is an old-school London detective who finds himself working together with a vampire to solve some distinctly unusual crimes. The first book in the series, Something Wicked,...
Tendu: Ailish Sinclair
When I was a lot younger, girls used to enjoy books set in ballet schools. Tendu is set in a ballet school but it's not to be confused with stories like Belle of the Ballet. Ailish Sinclair’s school is like no ballet school I’ve ever heard of. For a start, there are...
Of graveyards and Napoleonic soldiers
Ever since I wrote Something Wicked, with its climax in Brompton Cemetery, I’ve enjoyed London graveyards and, of course, I’m always up for anything Napoleonic. Last weekend I was able to combine the two interests with a tour of Kensal Green Cemetery looking at tombs...
The Retreat: Karen King
It's been a while since I put a book review on this blog, so it must be time for one. English Eva and her Spanish partner, José, have restored an old house in the Spanish countryside and are planning to open it for wellness retreats. José has borrowed heavily to make...
Hill Forts
Ailish Sinclair is s lovely writer (in the sense of a writer of lovely stories) whose novels carry a very strong sense of place. She is a proud Scot and blogs about castles and countryside north of the border with some gorgeous photos. Recently I was reading an old...
Burke in Ireland
From 16 September, ‘Burke in Ireland’ will be just 99p on Kindle for five days. Sales of the Burke books have fallen off a little over summer so I decided to do a price promotion on one of them and, from an admittedly limited selection, this was the one readers came...
Galbraith & Pole
I imagine that everybody who reads this blog has realised by now that I write historical fiction. What I think some people still don't know is that I have a sideline in Urban Fantasy. I enjoy writing Urban Fantasy. It takes more research than I had expected. Sometimes...
Summertime and the writer is lazy
It's Thursday and I have to turn my mind to tomorrow's blog post. My mind, though, is resolutely refusing to turn itself to anything remotely useful. We haven't had a summer holiday this year – just a few long weekends in England. The last week has seen some of the...
The Victorian Fascination with Murder
This week I welcome Antoine Vanner to my blog where he is writing about murder most foul. --------------------------------------------------------------- I have always enjoyed George Orwell’s essays, not only for the variety of the topics and the clarity of his...
What did Napoleon do for us (and Europe)?
There’s more to Napoleon than you think Many Napoleonic wars enthusiasts dismiss Napoleon as a tyrannical megalomaniac who was good for nothing but war and who achieved little that benefitted France. This ignores the introduction of the prefecture system which enabled...