Mary Russell’s War (twenty-one): the cold of Boston

22 December 1914 Boston is cold. I have not seen snow for years, but here it covers the rooftops, muffles the sounds, clots the shoes of the walker. The cold penetrates the houses, so that despite the festivities of the season, regardless of the cooking smells and shiny ornaments and tentative but growing collection of…

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Saving the day

I was in my local Bookshop Santa Cruz the other day when the owner came up to me to say, Thank you, for saving our day.  Seems that last Thursday when I went in to sign their copies of “Mary’s Christmas”was the day that Stormageddon descended on Northern California, and hanging around book stores was…

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Mary Russell’s War (twenty: parting’s eve)

14 December 1914 My commitment to writing a journal entry on the weekly anniversary of the start of War (which began on a Tuesday) is being put aside this week, for it looks as if my usual writing time tomorrow will be taken up with other things. That is because today—a Monday—my issue of the…

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My British face

I just received the UK cover for Dreaming Spies: What do you think? Allison & Busby have done me some gorgeous covers over the years, take a look at them all, here. Same date as the US edition, by the way, February 17.

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Mary’s Christmas, in time for Christmas

  So, I fought my way through storm and flood and fallen branches (yeah, it is indeed raining here in drought-land, and raining hard—really hard) risking life and limb and wet shoes JUST FOR YOU, making my way to Bookshop Santa Cruz (and back) where I signed a stack of the now-in-print short story,  “Mary’s Christmas”…

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A Random House giveaway!

Happy holiday season everyone! Random House are hosting a Mystery & Thriller Holiday Giveaway where you can enter for a chance to win a prize pack of books by Carla Buckley, Lee Child, Janet Evanovich, Alan Furst, Tess Gerritsen, Andrew Grant, Jonathan Kellerman, Dean Koontz, Laura McHugh, Kathy Reichs, Karin Slaugther, Amanda Kyle Williams–and me! (You will also be entered to win a Grand Prize, which includes a…

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Serving all your podcastian needs

Podcasts, like audio books, are a great way of double-tasking your way through dull slices of life whether it’s on the freeway or a treadmill. There’s a lot of podcasts with my voice on them, floating around on the etherwebs, in which I and others talk about writing, or Sherlock Holmes and Mary Russell, or…

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Rain! Rain!

It’s actually raining here on the Central Coast: real, long-lasting downpours.  Which will probably end instantly, now that I’ve said it aloud, but it’s so lovely to have real wet soggy ground outside my window. And so, for today’s Throwback Thursday picture, an image of yours truly in the Australian so-called desert, following a rare…

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