Life under a pandemic is hard. There’s no two ways to get around that fact. No matter your circumstances. Whether you’re locked down alone, with a partner, with grown children, young children, babies, elderly parents, lockdown in whatever form, is hard. And today we’re officially gradually coming out of it. People are being encouraged to…
How To Approach Reading During The Lockdown
Monday 27th April 2020 and day 35 of the Coronavirus lockdown. You may have found that during this tumultuous period of our lives, where there is a pandemic raging beyond our doors and we are locked down inside our homes, allowed out for little but the essential, that your attention is in pieces. And this…
Virtual Crime Book Club – This Month’s Read…
Friday 24th April 2020 and day 32 of the Coronavirus lockdown. The voting is finished and we have a winner for this month’s virtual crime book club read. And that is; Blood Orange by Harriet Tyce Alison has it all. A doting husband, adorable daughter, and a career on the rise – she’s just been…
Virtual Crime Book Club – Video! And Voting Again!
Tuesday 21st April 2020 and day 29 of the Coronavirus lockdown. Well, last night saw the first meeting of the virtual crime book club on Zoom. On the whole it went really well, but there were a couple of hiccups that spoiled it a little. The email software I used to send the meeting room…
Recently Read – Doing Time by Jodi Taylor
Monday 20th April 2020 and day 28 of the Coronavirus lockdown. Doing Time by Jodi Taylor A long time ago in the future, the secret of time travel became known to all. Everyone seized the opportunity – and the world nearly ended. There will always be idiots who want to change history. And so, the…
Crime Drama Criminal Minds Closes its Doors For The Last Time
Friday 17th April 2020 and day 25 of the Coronavirus lockdown. The CBS crime drama Criminal Minds ran its last ever episode in the UK this week. It was the fifteen season of the long-running popular drama which has spawned two other dramas; Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders and Criminal Minds: Suspect Behaviour as well as…
My Writing Life ~ Working Through a Pandemic
Wednesday 15th April 2020 and day 23 of the Coronavirus lockdown. Again it’s been a while since I updated you on how my writing week was going. And yes, these were supposed to be weekly updates. At the start of this year I was full of good intentions about how much work I was going…
Recently Read – Half a World Away by Mike Gayle
It’s Tuesday 14th April 2020 and we’re on day 22 of the coronavirus lockdown in the UK. There is a global lockdown due to the virus also known as COVID-19. When the lockdown first started I considered starting another blog to diarise this period in history, but as we’re confined to our homes, I wasn’t…
The First Book We’re Reading for the #Virtualcrimebookclub…
The votes are all in and counted up and we have a winner by a large margin and that winner is… Rules For Perfect Murders by Peter Swanson Eight classic murders. A single crime obsessive. Countless thrilling twists. A series of unsolved murders with one thing in common: each of the deaths bears an eerie resemblance to…
Virtual Crime Book Club – Choose Your Book!
Last week I wrote a post explaining that I was restarting the virtual crime book club again. You can read the details of that book club HERE. Today you can choose the book you want to read for our first meeting. There are five to choose from. Going forward I will take suggestions from members…