My publisher Severn House has released a special omnibus edition of the first two Silas Quinn novels. It’s available now from Amazon for just £4.80 for both books. I think it’s pretty cool to have an omnibus edition out there. The idea is that it will give readers new to the series a chance to …
Exciting news – there’s now a Silas Quinn omnibus ebook! Read More »
Spines are important. The spines of books, I’m talking about. Especially if your books don’t make it onto the front tables at Waterstones. They have to tell their own story, giving just a brief glimpse of what’s inside. And usually they are competing against a whole shelfful of other spines. It’s even harder to design …
This year is the centenary of the end of the First World War. To commemorate that the writers’ collective 26 is running a very special project. They have invited 100 writers to produce a piece of writing exactly 100 words long inspired by someone who was alive at any time during the 1914-18 war. Male, …
One of the joys of the research phase is discovering obscure old books. This one is a history of the Yard written in 1929 – which coincidentally is the year of my dad’s birth. There’s that musty smell you don’t get with Kindle. I’m hoping it will provide some interesting procedural detail. Can’t wait to …
Scotland Yard and The Metropolitan Police by J. F. Moylan. Read More »
This is a follow-up post to Fake news is nothing new (Part 1), where I began to tell the story of Kate Hume, a young office worker from Dumfries who in September 1914 forged two letters, purportedly evidence that her sister Grace, a nurse, had died horribly at the hands of the Germans in Belgium. …