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On a summer’s day in 1799, a group of men were driving cattle from Kentucky to Virginia, along a road known as Boone’s Trace, when the cows suddenly quit the road and rushed into the woods. Once [...]

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 [...]