The Murder of Mary Russell
To tease your storyteller palate…
* * The Murder of Mary Russell, which publishes next Tuesday, may be pre-ordered as: A signed US hardback from Bookshop Santa Cruz or Poisoned Pen Books An unsigned hardback or ebook from B&N/Nook or Amazon/Kindle A UK hardback from Waterstones, or hard/ebook from Amazon UK.
Read MoreBecoming Mrs Hudson
The Mrs Hudson we know and love, first in Conan Doyle’s Baker Street and later in Russell’s life, may not be quite the same young woman we meet in The Murder of Mary Russell. (One week from today!) Don’t worry, I don’t intend to say anything about the process of transformation, because that would be…
Read MoreContest ending…
Tomorrow is the last day to get me your entries for the obituary/headstone contest, so I have a chance to judge them AND SEND YOU YOUR COPIES OF THE HARDBACK BOOK… …and one of you an iPad mini (sweet!) before I take off on next week’s (!) book tour (whee–check out the cities here.) So if you’re…
Read MoreLaurie, talking, in her study, on Easter
So: Sunday is coming. Now, I know you may have a few things during the day to keep you occupied, particularly those of you with small children in the family… but by the evening, you may be looking for other entertainments. Maybe something that doesn’t require you to eat. How about coming to sit down in…
Read MoreMrs Hudson comes home
My friends at Two Rock Media, who did the superb book trailers for Pirate King and The Language of Bees, have done a new kind of trailer, a sort of audio play excerpt from the book itself. I love their experiments with how to build a story, and shape one narrative out of another. Who’d have thought…
Read MoreAgainst violence
I’m involved with a fundraiser and program to help stop violence against women. First, there’s a Russell Basket. This includes a signed hardback of The Murder of Mary Russell, a copy of Dreaming Spies, and one of the gorgeous big Dreaming Haiku posters, all in a handsome Random House book bag. They’re requesting a $75 donation,…
Read MoreA Young Mr Holmes
Two weeks from today, the newest (and…last?) Russell memoir comes out. Since The Murder of Mary Russell reaches back into the Victorian era for portions of its tale, at a point we’re going to encounter a fairly young Sherlock Holmes. No, I’m not talking Spielberg, here but rather, the apparent undergraduate Dr Watson encounters in…
Read MoreThe London Season
The Murder of Mary Russell not only dips into the past, it dips into other worlds from that of Mary Russell in the early 20th century. For example, the social whirl that is The Season: The Season, when the Names and would-be Names of the British Empire would gather in London, ran from midwinter until midsummer—…
Read MoreFor Murder, that’s the ticket!
Murder will be on tour—or at any rate, its author will be—in just a few weeks. And because I’d hate for my faithful followers (that’s you) to get left out, I wanted to point out that some of the events are ticketed. A couple of these are venues that asked me and agreed to wait…
Read More221 Baker Street
In The Murder of Mary Russell, we learn just how Sherlock Holmes came to inhabit the iconic Baker Street house where he and Dr Watson settled in before the fire with pipes and gasogene,newspapers and experiments, waiting for the knock from below that signaled a client. As Watson writes in A Study in Scarlet: We…
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