The Meeting, a hundred years on

  One hundred years ago, something happened. Something vastly important. An event that reverberated down the ages. If you’ve been following the Monday posts on this blog, you’ll know that two days and a hundred years ago, Miss Russell planned on taking a walk from her inherited home across the Sussex Downs to the Channel. And we…

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Talking Dreaming Spies

For those of you who didn’t get a chance to see one of my Dreaming Spies tour stops, the good folks at Anderson’s Books in Naperville, IL have posted a nice interview about writing the book, the Bodleian library, being inducted into the Baker Street Irregulars, Russell’s Twittering, and writing Sherlockian erotica, all over on…

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Expressing interest in the future

Mad as this may seem, you can now pre-order a copy of The Murder of Mary Russell: a book I have yet to finish, a book without cover art, a book more than a year from ending up in your hands. A book with more questions than answers. It all feels rather Kickstarter-ish, doesn’t it?…

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The Weaker Sex 

I have had four lovely days of down time after a couple weeks of flitting about the countryside, and now that my laundry is clean and I’m almost caught up with emails, I think I’ll take off again. Today is Orinda and Sacramento, then Thursday I’m joining the migration towards Portland and Left Coast Crime…

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And next….

In celebration and thanks for today’s NYT and Indie bestseller lists—where you put Dreaming Spies—my publishers have given me permission to make a little…announcement. It concerns the name of the next novel in the Russell & Holmes universe. Want to know it? You sure? Even though you’re not going to see the book, or even…

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An e-birthday card, for Mary Russell

When I happened to mention that January 2 is Mary Russell’s birthday (115 and going strong!) the clever folk at Random House jumped at the chance to add to their growing series of Dreaming Spies e-cards, which use my photos of Japan to illustrate tidbits from the book:

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Dreaming Spies minus 4; The Illustrated R&H now!

[This giveaway is now closed, sorry, but stay tuned for more of the same!] Four months from today, Dreaming Spies appears on shelves!  And so not all of you are forced to wait, I have two copies of the bound galleys (the book’s ARC) to give away here on Mutterings. All you need to do is…

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Mary Russell’s War (seven): My war work

Mary Russell’s journal of the Great War has come to light, beginning on August 4, 1914. This is week seven (For the other weeks, click here.) 15 September 1914 Last week, Levi circled an article in the news concerning a boy of fourteen years and eleven months who was serving in the German army, and left it…

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