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Location, location, location…
A couple of weeks ago I opened a book I’d bought a while ago, and immediately I was transported – to exotic countries I’ve only dreamed of visiting. Couple that with one of the best suspense stories I’ve ever read, and you get an edge-of-the-seat experience: Kai wakes up in a foreign hospital, but she…
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LAMBS!!!
Yesterday (Saturday), I was sitting in a bus on the way up to town. All was peaceful. Until a woman, complete with grandson, got on and sat down nearby. The little boy would be three, maybe four, and he immediately started chatting to his Omi about playgroup. Their conversation went something like this: Child: Playgroup…
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Cheers, slàinte, and prost!
It’s a triple book celebration today here in N.E. Switzerland – one of them entirely by coincidence. First of all, happy publication day to The Saturday Secret, my first-ever feel-good, romantic-ish collection of short stories. I’ve been wanting to do a charity book with my stories for a while, and this is it. All 2017…
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Books Without Borders….
Standing in my living room this morning, I can see into three different countries. Switzerland, Germany, Austria. It’s fun, living in borderland. In summer we take the ferry across the lake to Friedreichshafen once or twice a month, to stroll along the promenade there, admiring the mountains back home in Switzerland. (We’re too close to…
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Worst-Case Scenario…
Imagine, for a moment, you are old. Your partner is gone now; your children are living their own lives far away. Your health isn’t what it was, and the technological world of today is often confusing. You are lonely. One day, the phone rings. You answer, hoping it might be one of your children. But…
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How much romance do you need in your thriller?
A thrilling romance… or a romantic thriller??? Romance in a thriller can be problematic, as I found out when I was writing Ward Zero, and my editor advised me to change the sex of one of my main characters… So who comes to mind, when we think about crime fiction and romance? Dorothy L. Sayers…
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#andnowforsomethingcompletelydifferent
I’ll never forget the first time I saw my name in a magazine (school mags excepted). It wasn’t actually the name that gave me such a thrill because in those days I used a pen name – it was the story. I had written a romantic short story, Perfect Partners, and there it was in…
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2016 – the best of times and the worst of times… (a minimalist’s version)
The death of David Bowie on January 10th was a shock to many people, including me, and 2016 did seem to provide us with more than usual ‘famous deaths’. It’s been a big year in politics, too. But here’s my personal take on the past 12 months: Best book moment: Holding Chosen Child for the…
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Goodbye, Prague…
I took enough pics to keep the blog busy for months on end, but we’ll stop here. A trilogy of posts is enough. So – the final photos… The streets around my hotel reminded me of the film Goodbye, Lenin! which came out in the early noughties. It’s about a young East German whose dedicated…
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