Something feels stale about the New Year’s resolutions in this new decade: 2020. It think it is my history of failing to keep them! In...

The Last Christmas (2019) movie has had poor reviews. So have many artistic works that become beloved. I loved this movie and think it...

Last week I found my first mention of Brexit in Alice Boatright’s What Child is This? An Ellie Kent mystery set at Christmas complete...

So I am the apprentice, but there is still “Mystery Writer” and “spellbook” to pars. Where I am from (UK), “mystery” is less used to...

This is one of the experiments in my blog with the tongue firmly in the side of the mouth title. I am the Mystery Writer’s apprentice....