Random House are having a lot of fun with Dreaming Spies, including a series of e-cards that combine my photographs with references to the book. Here was the first one, which you may have missed in the December tumult: Another one will be coming soon….
Read More29 December 1914 Two days left in this ghastly year. Four days left for me to be fourteen. And on the third day, I shall slip away. In the past week, the idea of dressing up as a man in an English ingle-nook has kept coming back to me, to the point of fixation. On…
Read More22 December 1914 Boston is cold. I have not seen snow for years, but here it covers the rooftops, muffles the sounds, clots the shoes of the walker. The cold penetrates the houses, so that despite the festivities of the season, regardless of the cooking smells and shiny ornaments and tentative but growing collection of…
Read MoreI was in my local Bookshop Santa Cruz the other day when the owner came up to me to say, Thank you, for saving our day. Seems that last Thursday when I went in to sign their copies of “Mary’s Christmas”was the day that Stormageddon descended on Northern California, and hanging around book stores was…
Read More14 December 1914 My commitment to writing a journal entry on the weekly anniversary of the start of War (which began on a Tuesday) is being put aside this week, for it looks as if my usual writing time tomorrow will be taken up with other things. That is because today—a Monday—my issue of the…
Read MoreI just received the UK cover for Dreaming Spies: What do you think? Allison & Busby have done me some gorgeous covers over the years, take a look at them all, here. Same date as the US edition, by the way, February 17.
Read MoreSo, 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 MoreHappy holiday season everyone! Random House are hosting a Mystery & Thriller Holiday Giveaway where you can enter for a chance to win a prize pack of books by Carla Buckley, Lee Child, Janet Evanovich, Alan Furst, Tess Gerritsen, Andrew Grant, Jonathan Kellerman, Dean Koontz, Laura McHugh, Kathy Reichs, Karin Slaugther, Amanda Kyle Williams–and me! (You will also be entered to win a Grand Prize, which includes a…
Read More8 December 1914 At last, I have the sensation of moving forward with my life, for the first time since I set out to find the German spies back in October. What a very long time ago that seems, and such a young child she was. (I do feel, however, that the authorities were…
Read MorePodcasts, 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…
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