Well my plan of monthly blogs has, somewhat, gone out the window over the last few months so I will need to think of some things to share in the coming couple of months to catch up. Sometimes, an idea for a blog just comes to me and other times I just can’t think forContinue reading “Nov 2025 – One, Two, Miss a Few and DI Christie Book 5 Update.”
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Jun 2025 – Underrated Christie
Stupidly late for this month’s (or more accurately last month’s) blog, but I’m aiming for ‘averaging’ a blog a month. This month, I wanted to return to Agatha Christie and talk about three of her underrated stories, in my most humble of opinions. I decided to pick one Poirot, one Marple and one Other forContinue reading “Jun 2025 – Underrated Christie”
Apr 2025 – My Top 5 Crime Dramas (This Year, So Far…)
It may not come as a surprise that I watch a fair amount of crime drama on television and love nothing more than having a good binge of the latest series of a great show. I tend to watch mostly home based shows as US ones tend to overstay their welcome and often have aContinue reading “Apr 2025 – My Top 5 Crime Dramas (This Year, So Far…)”
Top 10 Perfectly Cast Sleuths
It’s been a while since I did a Top 10, so I’ve decided to share who I think are ten of the most perfectly cast actors to play a sleuth. I’ve focused on British shows to begin with as I may do a separate European/Rest of the World list in the future. 10 – DouglasContinue reading “Top 10 Perfectly Cast Sleuths”
Book Blog 4 of 4 – Lightning Bolt
Well, this blog brings us to the fourth and final weekly update regarding the books that I have published thus far. Lightning Bolt is the third in the current DI Jo Christie series and it was good to get back to these characters after a few years away working on other stories and a coupleContinue reading “Book Blog 4 of 4 – Lightning Bolt”
Book Blog 3 of 4 – Five Against One
Following the release of ‘Christie’s Early Cases’ (see previous blog), I now had my main characters written and developing nicely to attempt a full novel. Most of the feedback I had received from the first book was very positive, but as often the case with short stories, the readers wanted more (e.g. a novel). IContinue reading “Book Blog 3 of 4 – Five Against One”
Book Blog 2 of 4 – Christie’s Early Cases
It was around 2014 when the idea for DI Joanne Christie started to develop. I had been writing some short stories with the character DI James Slim, set in Glasgow, but I was worried that he would end up being a ‘Glasgow Rebus’ type character, even if they are very different. I knew that IContinue reading “Book Blog 2 of 4 – Christie’s Early Cases”
Desert Island Poirot
One of my most listened to podcasts of 2023 is the excellent ‘The Labours of Hercule’ where Frankie and Adam discuss the episodes of the Agatha Christie’s Poirot series starring David Suchet. Although there is a long way still to go before they complete the whole series, it has certainly inspired my latest ‘Desert Island’Continue reading “Desert Island Poirot”
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