Category Archives: writing

THIS COLD NIGHT: Being Nice

This Cold Night is a crime novel with a detective (Rosanna Quillan) trying to solve mysteries. Missing girl. Murder. Fraud. The usual. There is also an issue in it that might not have concerned me so much if we were not living through these present times. I am not so naïve as to think weContinue reading “THIS COLD NIGHT: Being Nice”

New Book: THIS COLD NIGHT

Yes, I’ve written another crime novel. It’s the third in my Cold Case series, featuring my detective Rosanna Quillan. She first appeared, as a detective constable, in BETHULIA, published by Diamond Crime, when I had no idea of writing a series. But since I decided to stick with my disillusioned Rosanna, after she left theContinue reading “New Book: THIS COLD NIGHT”

Isle of Wight Inspiration and Fatal Nostalgia

When I was very young, we had a car. A Morris 8, black, with a starting handle, little orange fingers that stuck out of the side as indicators, running boards and a blind in the small rear window that we children managed to break but never admitted to, which was okay because it was neverContinue reading “Isle of Wight Inspiration and Fatal Nostalgia”

A TIME FOR SILENCE: first love

A TIME FOR SILENCE. It wasn’t my first novel by a long chalk, but it was the first to be published. Like Jane Austen, you see (and I do try to bring her into as many posts as possible). She wrote several books, including FIRST IMPRESSIONS, which later became PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, before she wasContinue reading “A TIME FOR SILENCE: first love”

New Book: COLD IN THE EARTH

Today’s the day when my latest novel (psychological crime) is officially available from Amazon, as paperback and e-book. COLD IN THE EARTH. Yes I know the title’s been used before but then so have all my titles, and I really needed this one because of the way Emily Brontë’s poem continues, especially the third verse:Continue reading “New Book: COLD IN THE EARTH”

Body of Evidence. Part II

A murder happens, the culprit is caught, convicted and sent down. The case is closed and we are done with it. But that isn’t always the case for the victims and certainly not for their surviving loved ones. Here are four murder victims. Apart from being murdered, what do they have in common? The ultimateContinue reading “Body of Evidence. Part II”

Oh for a snapshot of the past.

I do wish that throughout my childhood, teens and early adult years, I and my family had viewed cameras as a means of documenting everyday life, instead of taking endless snaps of cute kids or holiday views. My mother did take a lot of photos of us, and she valued them all, filling endless albumsContinue reading “Oh for a snapshot of the past.”

New Title, New Cover, Same Tale.

First there was A Time For Silence, my domestic noir novel set in the present day and in the North Pembrokeshire of the 1930s and 40s. Who killed John Owen and why was no one caught? A moody blue cover with a photo of a cottage very near me. Then there was The Covenant, anContinue reading “New Title, New Cover, Same Tale.”

NEW BOOK: Consequential Short Stories

I’ve always been a reader, the longer the book the better. I like disappearing into vast tomes or, better still, series. If I’d been asked, as a child, if I’d like a collection of short stories, my answer would have been an emphatic no. It would never have occurred to me to read something thatContinue reading “NEW BOOK: Consequential Short Stories”