A piece of flash fiction fun, written for Bare Books podcast and aired on Christmas Day One minute past midnight. Christmas Day.Barry nudges his wife. “You ready, Cheryl?”No answer. Snoring gently, Cheryl is fast asleep.“Oh well,” says Barry. “Looks like it’s up to me. As usual.”Reluctantly, he gets out of the warm bed, pulls onContinue reading “Christmas Drinks”
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Does familiarity breed complacency?
Michael Connolly has been one of my favourite authors ever since I read his first Harry Bosch novel in 1992. His Mickey Haller, the Lincoln Lawyer series didn’t disappoint either, confirming Connelly as a first class crime writer. I followed the fortunes of both characters down the years, adding the Renée Ballard stories to theContinue reading “Does familiarity breed complacency?”
The Impossible Thing: Belinda Bauer
The Impossible Thing is set in two different periods, approximately one hundred years apart. The stories are so different in every way that the two strands could each stand on their own as short stories. As it is, they’re tied together by the impossible thing – a scarlet guillemot’s egg, stolen from a bird onContinue reading “The Impossible Thing: Belinda Bauer”
JJ Grafton 