NOMINATED FOR THE 2011 CWA ELLIS PETERS AWARD FOR BEST HISTORICAL CRIME NOVEL! Easter, 1872. Fires burn in St Petersburg, a prelude to the revolutionary turmoil that will shake Russia a generation later. As the springtime thaw begins, a body rises to the surface of the Winter Canal. Following an anonymous tip-off, magistrate Porfiry …
… some tips on generating mystery and suspense. Jenn Ashworth is the author of A Kind of Intimacy and the forthcoming Cold Light. She has also been picked by The Culture Show as one of the 12 best new novelists in Britain! Wow! She’s even on telly this Saturday. Anyhow, she’s invited a series of …
Elizabeth A. White, whose book review blog is subtitled “The musings of an all purpose monkey”, has written a great review of A Razor Wrapped In Silk. Amongst other nice things, she said this: “The investigations make for a great detective story in and of themselves but, as with the previous two entries in the …
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2 mysteries in 1 workplace. Who killed the planner & what did the letters W o h y h w t a h w o h w on the client’s back mean? Solution. “What is this place?” asked DCI Stafford as DS Ringer walked him across the reception of Bartleby Zimmer and Rumsfeld. Ringer had …
The poisoner poured tea from the same pot. 3 people drank it. Only 1 died. This is one from the annals. The year was 1851. The year of the Great Exhibition in the Crystal Palace, and also the year in which the Arsenic Act was passed, placing certain controls on the sale of all …