Christmas is now approaching at speed and I’d like to take this opportunity to thank all my readers. It’s been wonderful to meet so many lovely people at libraries, bookshops and festivals this year and their enthusiasm makes all the hard work of researching, planning, then rewriting each book several times, worthwhile.

Deadly Remains, Wesley Peterson’s next mystery, is now completed and will be out next August. I’m pleased to say that the paperback edition of Coffin Island will be out on 24th April and I hope to arrange some events to coincide with its publication. Watch this space. My 2025 diary is starting to fill up and I’m particularly excited to have been asked to speak at the Dartmouth Book Festival next September. I just hope the good people of Dartmouth don’t mind that I’ve made their gorgeous town the murder capital of the South West.

I’ve also finished the second draft of Joe Plantagenet’s new mystery (set in a thinly disguised York). In November I spent a few days researching in York – sometimes I love this job.

I’d better finish now to get on with more festive preparations. I’d like to wish all my readers a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year. And Happy Reading!