This annoys me so much because the sitting down watching films generation starts in the 30+ age range (only if we’re very judgemental about anyone younger, also) so aging out is an insane statement. I’d watch a lo-fi Marvel film made with heart. I just like plot, character etc.

What's even better than being long listed for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2024? Being on the SHORTLIST.
The longlist is now open to vote until Thursday 16th May at bit.ly/TheakstonsAwar… #TheakstonsCrime
I don't like to beg, but I'll do it. Pleeeease...

In the Garden wikiart.org/en/joaqu-n-sor…

.Jane Casey reveals the dark side of suburbia in 'The Close'. Join DS Maeve Kerrigan & DI Josh Derwent as they go undercover to uncover murder on Jellicoe Close
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Next up for #ReadingHour we have a brilliant police procedural with A Stranger in the Family by Jane Casey, the return of DS Maeve Kerrigan & DI Josh Derwent. 16 years ago 9-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from home. Her parents have now been found dead... #BorrowBox

this is how cats sneeze

So bowled over to be among the great authors on this longlist!

I have one reader who keeps asking me to end the Maeve series for this reason. She just wants it to be over. 😁

26 wines tasted (and drunk!) over 26 miles. Nearly all guessed correctly. Finished in under five hours. Champagne at the finish line. Raised over £13k (so far) for Sobell House hospice in the name of his late mum. A BRITISH HERO!

This is a lovely conversation (full disclosure: Cecelia is very nice about the Maeve books and if you've read the latest you might recognise how she's feeling...)

This is such a lovely mini festival; come along! So many great authors in a fantastic setting. Very excited about this panel too.

Husband: The dog dug up a rat corpse on his walk.
Me:
Husband: But it was very old. Skeletonised.
Me: ˢᵗᵒᵖ ᵗᵃˡᵏᶦⁿᵍ

Spotted Dubray Rathmines by eagle-eyed Susan Stairs writes - Where They Lie sharing shelf space with Irish crime-writing ‘murderesses’ EDEL COFFEY 👩🏼‍💻 Jane Casey not to mention honorary Irish murderess Erin Kelly #TheHouseOfMirrors 📚 ❤️

'Evening Sky over Church Street, Westminster' by Algernon Cecil Newton (1880–1968)

(Private Collection)

If you're waiting for a sign that you should start working on that thriller idea, this is it. Caroline is fantastic and the course is online. Only two places left! city.ac.uk/prospective-st…