I love research. I have great fun preparing for a book once I know what the underlying subject will be. In the Author’s Note of all my books, I reveal the real life crime mainly reported in newspapers, I also do a great deal of reading on the subject in books, which...
you can read this now as Johnstone gives enough backstory for it to make sense, but then please do yourself a favor and go back to the beginning to watch a master author at work. The titles in order are:A Dark Matter;The Big Chill;The Great Silence...
Although my 1946 copy isn’t in very good shape, I’m proud to say that my oldest Little Golden Book,The Little Taxi That Hurried, was written byLucy Sprague Mitchell, a child education reformer. And it’s illustrated by Tibor Gergely, whose artwork graced many other Little Golden Books, ...
I wrote a piece for the Boldwood Books blog in which I talk about the research I undertook to make this story accurate and authentic, getting up close with the alpacas at The Lingholm Estate by Derwent Water. I’ll include some of the photos later in this post but I won’t duplicate ...
Rhodes abilities as a poet surface in her lyrical prose and beautifully constructed descriptions and prose; her talents at creating tension have Elly Griffiths calling her “An absolute master of pace.” Do yourself a favor if you haven’t already discovered the wildly talented Kate Rhodes, and ...
Award-winning Mystery Author on books, reading and life: If proofreading is wrong, I don't wanna be right!
Nick Foley is an ex-Navy SEAL, working in China on a water irrigation system for his own purposes when he becomes engaged in a conspiracy of the highest order. A bio-terrorism outbreak in western China somehow points to Nick as the leader behind this and he’s suddenly on the run to ...
and the City of Chicago itself which I consider an ongoing character in my books. This segue was neatly handled for me by the fact that Arthur Conan Doyle had visited Chicago in 1894 when he was touring the United States. It was at that time he sold one of his favorite manuscripts, “...
It’s a fine line Barbara has danced since her crossing the line in Italy two books ago. “Dancing” has a secondary meaning here, as the redoubtable Dorothea Harriman has had the sergeant accompanying her to tap dancing class. Yes, you read that correctly. Barbara Havers is tap dancing. ...
if it ever comes. Or for those nights when there’s nothing on television that sparks your interest. Or waiting for an appointment. Or–well, for Auntie M, reading is something she does in all of these places. And then some. She usually has two books in progress at all times and brin...