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The Road to Murder is up for preorder!

03 Thursday Mar 2022

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And I’m very, very happy to announce that you can now preorder via Amazon The Road to Murder – Book 1 of the Tom Walsingham Mysteries! Continue reading →

The Road to Murder – Cover reveal!

10 Thursday Feb 2022

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And for the first time in nine years, I leave aside my beloved colour scheme of black, grey, red and white, because really, this one you must see in all its splendour… The lovely people at Sapere Books sent me my cover – the first cover for the Tom Walsingham Mysteries…

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Floating between drafts

29 Thursday Oct 2020

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Yesterday I finished, for all intents and purposes, the second draft of Road to Murder. Well, it was today, technically, around two in the morning – but still. I finished the second draft. Continue reading →

Anna Castle’s Kit Marlowe

27 Thursday Aug 2015

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DbDAnd so, as I said I would, I read the second volume of Anna Castle’s Francis wonderful Francis Bacon series.* In Death by Disputation the action moves from London to Cambridge, with Tom Clarady installed at Corpus Christi college – ostensibly to get his degree. But of course, there is more to it: Tom is there as Bacon and Lord Burleigh’s intelligencer, to uncover a Puritan conspiracy against Queen, State, and Church. Who is smuggling incendiary Puritan tracts from the Low Countries, rallying religious malcontents and generally raising mischief? And then Tom’s tutor** – the man who informed Lord Burleigh in the first place – is found murdered, and Tom’s commission suddenly becomes a good deal riskier…
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Francis Bacon, sleuth

21 Thursday May 2015

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cover-murder-by-misruleHow exactly I came across Anna Castle‘s Francis Bacon mysteries I don’t remember – but, for once and for a wonder, it wasn’t because of Kit Marlowe.

Well, Marlowe will appear in the second book, yes – but I didn’t know that until after reading Book 1, so there. Continue reading →

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