UK Deals on Russells

Hi UK readers—just to let you know (to tell your friends!) Locked Rooms, Letter of Mary, and The Moor are on on special in the UK for just £2, with the Kindle versions even less.  Enjoy!

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Mary & Sherlock, the Christmas War

As BookBub may have told you, there’s a special deal on the US e-book of Mary Russell’s War— As you probably know, Russell’s War would be an ideal present for this time of year since there are two, yes two, Christmas stories. One is about Russell’s childhood memories, and the other is all the way…

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An Island is coming…

So, looks like you can order this from some places. Just in case you’re, you know, interested… The Island of the Mad: June, 2018. Web page, signed copies, and Amazon. This is not the cover, but perhaps it will put you in the mood–

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Sherlock’s OTHER relation…

My friend Rebecca Morean drops by for a visit today, with word of a return of her tales of two fascinating women of the early Twentieth Century—one of whom is a relation of… well, see for yourself. –LRK I was excited to sit down with Abbey Pen Baker, the great niece of Faye Martin Tullis…

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Trumpets & Confetti; Russell & Holmes

Got your trumpets polished? Champagne on ice? Confetti on hand?         Good—because it’s time to announce that…. coming to a screen near you… will be (all fingers crossed)… The MARY RUSSELL SERIES featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes ! Well, no, it’s not real yet. Don’t get our your popcorn quite this…

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Gleeful cackles of plot

A question writers are often asked is, “Where did that story / that character / that idea come from?” Usually the answer boils down to something small, some tiny piece of grit that lodges in the mind and accumulates ideas, images, snippets of dialogue like a pearl in an oyster. (Though admittedly, some pearls end…

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Sherlock and the Voices

I like the program Sherlock. I tend not to read pastiches—stories about Sherlock Holmes written by someone other than Arthur Conan Doyle—for fear that some day I find myself writing that person’s character or scenes into my own Holmes. But with Sherlock, there’s little danger of incorporating its modern scenarios into the Russell stories. I…

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The Triumph of the Maryorama!

It’s been almost eerie how the wider events of this past week have found echoes in my own working life. On the dark side of things, it’s brought me face to face with the final scenes I had written for next year’s Lockdown. Not that the book has anything to do with politics (thank goodness),…

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Travels & Travails

[A letter, to those of you who don’t see my News.] I’m not sure if you, my dear Friends and Readers, have all just been super busy with the new academic year, or too swept up in the election to focus on anything but else, but the deadline is fast approaching for a contest that…

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