Year: 2017

My grandson asked me the other day if it gets easier to write as one moves from book to book.  It is an interesting question.   You would think it ought…

In An Old Cold Grave, Lane Winslow spends time at one of the several abandoned houses in King’s Cove, hoping to find some trace of the family of a dead…

In my last blog I talked about the Home Children, who have a place in my new release, An Old Cold Grave.  A second story line in that book looks at…

The time is fast approaching for the release of my third Lane Winslow mystery, An Old Cold Grave in September.  Lane Winslow continues her sleuthing relationship with Inspector Darling and Constable Ames…

​I have received a number of kind notes from readers, many of whom have said how much they enjoy the description of nature in my books.  Of course, one can…

Lane Winslow is a fictional character who reflects only one of the hundreds of thousands of roles women took in the British war effort.  It is arguable that women made…

  A few reflections on living with silence.  I’m sitting here in front of my computer, my husband has the hockey game on in another room, which in our open…

On the eve of the release of my second book, Dark In The Darkening Mist I’ve been given, by an accidental question in a radio interview, a chance to look soberly what…

The King’s Cove of my stories is modelled on a place from a long distant time.  In fact, when I came on the scene, it was already lost in a…

I spent a good part of beginning around the age of three,  in a place just like King’s Cove.   When my parents first came to this country they lived in…