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My publisher asked me to write a blog post about St Patrick’s day as I remembered it in Ireland. It includes one of my favourite stories about being a newcomer to the US. You can read it on [...]

The back half of 2018 was quite a whirlwind! The Devil’s Half Mile dropped on Tuesday June 5, and I went straight into a book tour very generously organized by the Tor/Forge crew at Macmillan. We [...]

I’ve been on the book fan website/app Goodreads for a while, but I have no real idea how to use it, and certainly not as an author. And it seems like bit could be a very useful tool. I [...]

I’m working on a list of favorite historical mysteries written around the time of The Devil’s Half Mile. It’s for guest blog post that I’m putting together. The big [...]

The hardback US covers for my new book, The Devil’s Half Mile, arrived a couple of weeks ago, but the books have not yet been printed. So I’ve been wrapping the jackets around other [...]

I’m embarrassed to say I did not know the answer to this question until today, when I read a recent New York Times article about Benedict Cumberbatch playing his dream role: Patrick [...]

Some good reads in Barry Forshaw’s latest review column. The Kremlin’s Candidate by Jason Matthews, The Shadow Killer by Arnaldur Indriðason, Exhibit Alexandra by Natasha Bell, The Smiling [...]

The other day I told my editor that I was about the send her the first draft of the sequel to The Devil’s Half Mile. “What’s the title?” she asked. I told her. “I [...]

I just got back from a fantastic visit to Memphis, and the American Booksellers Association Winter Institute, which is an annual gathering of independent booksellers. The people I met there were [...]

One of the great joys of writing historical fiction is learning the language of the time. And the sweary stuff in particular. I’m writing about early 19th century characters, so my go-to is [...]