Hello from the Writing Room,
I hope you are well and anticipating some fine Spring days ahead. If you’re anything like me your thoughts may be turning to what you should be doing in the garden. Not that I’m a great gardener, but I like to try.
The photo above is a shot of my favourite a shrub. I don’t remember planting it, and I certainly never look after it as I should, And yet, every Spring it looks like this.
Plants are just FANTASTIC!
I always thought this was a Gorse bush, or maybe Whin, but now I’m not so sure. If you can identify my shrub let me know in the comments.
Atonement for Death - soon available for Pre order!
Good news! The new Loveday Mystery, Atonement for Death, will soon be available for pre-order. I had hoped to publish the book much sooner, but a technical hitch out of my control changed that. So publication day will now be August 22. Anyway, more time to build up to a better launch. Watch his space.
Are you supersticious? I don’t walk under ladders, or open umbrellas indoors. However I’m really pleased if a black cat crosses my path or if I find a four leaf clover. if you think I have a superstitious streak you’d be right, so you’ll understand why I avoid number…well the one that comes after 12.
Apart from that, I feel a dozen books in a series is just about the right number anyway.
So get ready for the new novel. It’s still a Loveday Mystery, but Atonement for Death will be Book 1 of Series Two. More news later.
Meet Chase Wynott
I’d like to thank everyone who joined last month’s competition to name a character in the new book. First out of the hat was RJ Patterson’s Chase Wynott.
Well done, RJ. A signed copy of Atonement for Death will be on its way to you after the publication date.
In the meantime, Chase has now joined the cast of Loveday and friends for one appearance only as an artist from the US who applies to join Cassie’s team at her yacht refurbishing business. But you’ll have to read the book to discover how that turns out.
Fifty Free Crime Thrillers
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And for the first time ever you can also download a free full length copy of A Cornish Evil - Book 9 in the Loveday Mysteries Series.
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If you don’t know the story, this is what it’s about…
Loveday's boss, magazine publisher Merrick Tremayne, has married his housekeeper, Connie Bishop. But celebrations in an exclusive country house hotel come to an abrupt end when a woman is found murdered in one of the bedrooms. Loveday's partner, Detective Inspector Sam Kitto, takes charge of the investigation. The situation is sensitive, all the suspects are their friends.
But when Marietta Olsen, girlfriend of Merrick's half-bother, Cadan, disappears things take a more sinister turn.
Shetland Returns
Shetland series 9 began filming in Lerwick this month. Still missing Douglas Henshall in the DI Jimmy Perez role. But new DI Ruth Calder, played by Ashley Jensen, is making her mark in my opinion. She and Tosh (the fab Alison O’Donnell) work well together. I’ll look forward to it being televised later in the year.
Happy Viewing everyone
…and Happy Reading!
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