To say that this is a landmark week in my long career as a crime writer is no exaggeration. On Thursday evening - publication day! - I'm launching my latest novel, Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife, at Serenity Books in Romiley. At the time of writing there are still a few tickets left, so if you'd like to come along, please book here.
I'm truly delighted to say that there have been two more lovely reviews in advance of publication. Jeremy Black of The Critic describes the novel as 'excellent...first-rate and lots of humour...' And there's a great review here from Jim Noy of The Invisible Event. For good measure, Jim has also released a podcast in which he and I chat for an hour about the novel, and also other crime writing topics.
But there's more. This week also sees publication of As if By Magic, my latest anthology for the British Library's Crime Classics, glowingly reviewed by Jeremy Black in the same column. This book includes my favourite classic detection short story, 'The House in Goblin Wood' by Carter Dickson.
And then there is more. In fact, And Then There Were More is the title of my latest anthology edited on behalf of the Crime Writers' Association, again published in a gorgeous edition by Flame Tree Press. This book collects some of the most enjoyable crime stories to have appeared in CWA anthologies in years gone by.
As if that wasn't enough, today sees the release of a Blu-Ray collector's edition of The Man in Black from Hammer Films. And amongst many other things, it includes as a bonus extra a film of a conversation between Andrew Taylor and me in which we discuss John Dickson Carr. We recorded this at the Lansdowne Literary Festival in January, and hugely enjoyable it was too. Not that I ever imagined I'd feature in any kind of Hammer film...