Mary Russell’s War (eighteen): the empty home

1 December 1914 Last week, O irony, was Thanksgiving. Yesterday, I returned home for the first time. Dr Ginsberg went with me, and I admit that I was grateful for her company in the car that drove me through the city streets and up the hill. I was braced for the emptiness of the house,…

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Mary Russell’s War (seventeen): moats and murders

24 November 1914 The Valley of Fear is a murder mystery set in a moated house. At night, the owner puts up the drawbridge, yet someone gets in and kills him. England is an island. The moats around her, the seas and channels, only appear to protect her. Forty Zeppelins Are Ready for Service.  …

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Newsletter giveaway

Next Monday we’ll do a drawing from the list of newsletter subscribers, giving away two copies of the ARC of Dreaming Spies.  If you’re not signed up for the News, you can do so here. And good luck!

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Larceny in the Library

I was asked to write a short piece for the Random House Library blog, so I used it as an opportunity to confess the sins I committed during the writing and researching of Dreaming Spies.  Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.  Read my confession here.

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Mary’s Christmas

The short story “Mary’s Christmas”– –is now available in a print version! My local shrine to print wisdom, Bookshop Santa Cruz, can sell you this nice little booklet (with my signature and an inscription, if you like) here. It begins one winter’s evening in late 1921 or 1922 when the two are seated by their…

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Newsletter giveaway

Next week we’ll be giving away two copies of the Dreaming Spies ARC– –drawn from the Newsletter signup list.  So if you’re not signed up for the Newsletter, doing so now would increase your chances by, well, a fair amount.  The signup is here.  

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Mary Russell’s War (sixteen): family betrayals

17 November 1914 How do I write about this? My tumbling thoughts were just beginning to settle down, my mind was starting to feel as if it were moving in a forward direction again for the first time since the accident, when…. How can I go on, knowing the deceit of my own parents? Why…

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In good Company

Today at BoucherCon, we’re having a launch party for In the Company of Sherlock Holmes.   There are thirteen prose stories in the collection–but there are also Gahan Wilson drawings, and one graphic story by Leah Moore and John Reppion: In the Company of Sherlock Holmes publishes November 11. You can pre-order a copy from: Poisoned…

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Rousing COMPANY!

In the Company of Sherlock Holmes brings together a mix of people you never thought you’d see writing Sherlock Holmes stories. Such as Michael Sims and Cornelia Funke. The Memoirs of Silver Blaze by Michael Sims I shall not soon forget that awful night on the moors. I was happy in King’s Pyland. At the…

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Mary Russell’s War (fifteen): the jack of spades arrives

10 November 1914 I have been neglecting this Journal in recent weeks. Nonetheless, it appears that my life will continue, and Dr. Ginsberg feels that some weekly notation might be of use in the restoration of normal thought. So I shall resume. My family is dead. I, however, am alive. And following the increasing number…

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