Twistery #19.
The poisoner poured tea from the same pot. 3 people drank it. Only 1 died.
Twistery #18 solution.
Tiny footprints in the gravel led up to the broken window. The burly lover pointed the finger at the dead man’s business rival, a midget. The world of competitive bonsai growing was often described as cut-throat. But no one expected that its intense rivalries would one day result in murder. Richard “Rich” Grounds was one …
The Cleansing Flames cover.
I can now reveal the cover to my next Porfiry Petrovich novel, THE CLEANSING FLAMES, which will be published in May by Faber and Faber:
Twistery #18.
Tiny footprints in the gravel led up to the broken window. The burly lover pointed the finger at the dead man’s business rival, a midget.
A literary introduction to St Petersburg.
Russian travel company, ULKO Tours, has published a blog post about St Petersburg’s literary connections. You know the sort of thing, Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky… and me! I was very flattered to find myself included in such company – even more so to be mentioned in the same paragraph as J.M. Coetzee!