Southerners didn’t write the book on eccentricity, but we’ve certainly supplied literature with more than our share of audacious characters and plots. From the Lesters of Tobacco Road and Boo Radley, to Ignatius J. Reilly and the denizens of Yoknapatawpha County, Dixie has produced a bumper crop of picaresque folk.… Read More »The Wild Man, The Goat Woman & the Mississippi Miser by Michael Llewellyn
For the past six or seven years, I’ve been fascinated with World War One. So much so that I’ve written three novels centred on that horrifying world conflict. And still it haunts me. Initially, I concentrated on understanding my grandfather’s experience and his role in the Signal Corps but I… Read More »Bringing one soldier’s experience to life by M.K. Tod
Robert Emmet was only twenty-five when he was brutally executed by the British in the middle of a busy road – Dublin’s Thomas Street – on 20 September, 1803. He had been the leader of an abortive uprising that summer and also managed to evade capture for several weeks afterwards,… Read More »Liberty Boy by David Gaughran
One of my goals for writing the books in my Victorian San Francisco Mystery series has been to feature occupations held by women in the late 19th century. Consequently, in Maids of Misfortune, Annie, my amateur sleuth, goes undercover as a domestic servant, in Uneasy Spirits, she investigates a fraudulent… Read More »Victorian Shoplifters by M. Louisa Locke
Dead, but still working. That’s the idea behind the Dead Detective Mysteries. Book #1, THE DEAD DETECTIVE AGENCY, was named Best Mystery of 2012 by the Electronic Publishing Internet Coalition. Readers met Seamus, a detective who died in the 1950s and has been hanging around the gateway to the Afterlife… Read More »The Final Case of Dead Detective Seamus Hanrahan by Peg Herring