15 March 2025
Love-lorn PM’s steamy backseat affair makes intriguing wartime tale
Imagine any prime minister of recent times having regular trysts with a woman many years their junior and expecting no one to breathe a word. Or a love-lorn prime minister taking his paramour for regular cosy drives in the official limousine, with its blacked out windows, without a hint of a whisper beyond their inner… Continue Reading
15 March 2025
Love-lorn PM’s steamy backseat affair makes intriguing wartime tale
4 January 2025
Reader dismay follows fantasy switch by fave crime author
To see the name of crime fiction favourite Jo Nesbo shouting at us from a book’s cover is generally enough to persuade us to cough up the required cover price. No waiting for the cheaper paperback edition or shopping around but an immediate done deal. Instant gratification is guaranteed. But not on this occasion. Instead, the… Continue Reading
5 September 2024
How cosy can cosy crime become?
A recent trip into the chemistry lab surprised and delighted with the discovery that it held a formula for joy. It produced the recipe (pictured left) for sheer undiluted pleasure, as well as moments of laugh-out-loud comic interludes. Thankfully there was no need this time for the white coat and protective goggles demanded by Health… Continue Reading
4 August 2024
Thinking no longer needed thanks to AI
We have given birth. And it was almost pain-free. Certainly devoid of screaming and wailing in the delivery room. Mind you, doing the major part of it remotely probably helped. We are, however, talking not of humankind, but in techno terms. Our corporate flag is being waved from a totally new look website. And this… Continue Reading
2 April 2023
Midsommer faces Canadian rival for murder frequency
11 March 2023
Crime so cosy that it makes an excellent nightcap
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7 March 2025
Because I have a mobile phone it doesn’t mean I want to talk to you
Since when did it become compulsory to have a mobile phone? Why is it almost universally assumed that I am the owner of such an annoying and unwanted device? Without warning or reason it has become almost mandatory that I not only possess this accursed accessory but that I carry it with me at all… Continue Reading