Another Mannequin House review

This time on the Kirkus blog, by J. Kingston Pierce, who is also editor of The Rap Sheet. The verdict? “Mannequin is rewardingly abundant in quirky episodes and oddball players still unaccustomed to the early 20th century’s altered mores. Quinn definitely deserves a third outing.” Read the full review here.

Today is a good day to buy the ebook of The Cleansing Flames…

… because the price has been reduced to £1.65. So, here it is – CWA Ellis Peters Historical Novel Dagger-nominated, The Cleansing Flames. “The Cleansing Flames is the fourth in the series and arguably the best so far… Morris’s story succeeds admirably as a conventional work of crime fiction but is something more as well. …

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Curious bobbles.

This morning, in a quiet moment after everyone else had left the house, I was gazing out of the window at the snow when I noticed a squirrel bound along the top of the fence. What struck me was that the squirrel’s springing movements fitted exactly into a pattern of tiny peaks and troughs of …

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The repellent muse.

I’m currently researching my next novel, the third in the Silas Quinn series. In fact, I’m reaching the stage where I’m thinking about putting the history books to one side and doing some actual writing. The first thing I will have to do is turn the rather loose outline I submitted to my publisher into …

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