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You CAN Judge a Book By Its Cover—Your Verdict Is In! + Prize Winner Announced

You CAN Judge a Book By Its Cover—Your Verdict Is In! + Prize Winner Announced

Photos? Illos? Naked Torsos? Wow, what a response. Earlier this month, I discussed the various styles of cover design and asked you which you preferred: covers with illustrations, photographs and/or naked torsos? AND THE COVER-STYLE WINNER IS… Illustrated covers won hands down! Of the 100+ responses I received, 65% agreed that illustrated covers were ideal. 10% …

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Did You Win One of My E-books? Plus: 12 Cozies for 99c!

Did You Win One of My E-books? Plus: 12 Cozies for 99c!

Hello and happy 2018 everyone.  As a special thank you to my readers and subscribers for all your support over the past 12 months, I’m giving three of you a free ecopy of my latest Agatha Christie Book Club: Evil Under The Stars. The following subscribers have been chosen at random from my full subscriber list. In …

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Book Launch: Agatha Christie Book Club 3 Just Out!

Book Launch: Agatha Christie Book Club 3 Just Out!

In their most complex puzzle yet, the Agatha Christie Book Club unite to watch Evil Under The Sun at a moonlit cinema and end up face-to-face with evil under a star-lit sky. It’s the unlikeliest of crimes—a woman strangled in a public park, with scores of witnesses and not a single suspect in sight.  How did …

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Guess Which Agatha Christie Novel My Book Club Are Exploring Next? (Sneak Peek)

Guess Which Agatha Christie Novel My Book Club Are Exploring Next? (Sneak Peek)

Ever since my Agatha Christie devotees formed their own book club, I have had such fun selecting which of Dame Agatha’s novels to focus on next. And you can imagine my dilemma… Outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare, Ms Christie wrote 66 detective novels, numerous short story collections, romances and plays. But there’s always …

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Whopping Giveaway for Fans of Women Sleuths!

Whopping Giveaway for Fans of Women Sleuths!

There’s something especially cool and dynamic about female sleuths. Not only are they generally fast-talking, ass-kicking, take-no-prisoner types (and you NEED to be when you’re butting heads with beefy criminals and cocky male cops) but they’re almost always unashamedly womanly, often using their feminine wiles or witty one-liners to trick, coerce and outsmart the blokes.  …

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