Sherlock Holmes
That damp English crimate
Thursday I set off for London…in the rain. I got to London in the rain, wrangled my wheelie up many steps from Paddington (the tube side) and sploshed to my hotel, checked in, dried out, then crossed London in the rain to have tea with Val McDermid, whom I haven’t seen in far, far too long.…
Read MoreThat man follows me everywhere
Spotted the other day on market day in Thame:
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreExpressing 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?…
Read MoreTwitter party, and the Russell & Holmes origami colo(u)ring book
Okay, so every so often we do things on the site just for the fun of it. Here’s one of them: It’s a party, hosted by Russell & Holmes, inviting you (via Twitter) to join them in Sussex tomorrow. Or if you’d rather, you can just look on and watch the fun. These parties are…
Read MoreBSI weekend 2015: Brrr
It’s been another fantastic BSI weekend here in ([bloody cold]) New York City. Thursday after a lunch (French onion soup, nice and hot. Did I mention that it’s been cold here?) with the Random House Team Laurie, including editorial, publicity, and marketing, that was enthusiastic and energetic and warm (sensing a theme here?) the BSI…
Read MoreMary’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”…
Read MoreServing 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…
Read MoreDreaming 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…
Read MoreHolmes, the violinist
An ad in the Santa Cruz Chamber Players program:
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