On a cold January night in Durham Castle, two local businessmen are caught in a bizarre fire at a Burns …
Dead Ground, a book review
A variety of fairly standard characters dance around an increasingly high level murder investigation in this very readable crime mystery. …
Cockerings – a book review
Stevyn Colgan’s Cockerings is the next (?last) instalment of his South Herewardshire series of comic novels. When the circus comes …
Penfold Detective Series
UPDATE TO VIDEO: THE KIDNEY KILLER IS NOW PUBLISHED AND ALSO AVAILABLE HERE. Penfold is the investigative genius in …
Visions of Durham
This page shows a variety of images from Durham City in the north of England. Durham is the main setting …
To Have and Have Not
Book review – To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway As a thirsty and aspiring fiction writer, you’ve got …
Shouting at my kindle
I bought The Taken by Alice Clark-Platts because it’s a murder mystery set in Durham, where I’ve lived for 30 …
The Cricketer’s Corpse
2nd Edition published mid-September 2020 Why did Hamish Elliott die? The professional cricketer’s gruesome corpse is found in his own …