I’ve found the perfect place to work on a chapter from Harriet Smith book 2 set at Theatre Royal Bath before my theatre tour this morning!

Today I’m at the Neo-Victorian Criminalities, Detection, and Punishment conference at University of Wolverhampton. Currently listening to Claire Nally’s keynote lecture on ‘Perverse Motherhood and Neo-Victorian Criminal Women’.

I had a brilliant time on the backstage tour at the Theatre Royal Bath on Saturday, researching for Harriet Smith book 2 - great timing as I’m currently writing chapters set in this very theatre! Thank you so much to Joy and Phil for their excellent tour and additional research help!

Really enjoyed participating in a panel with Dr Mark Jones & Emma Woodhouse at the Neo-Victorian Criminalities, Detection, and Punishment conference at WLVUNIParamedic today! Fascinating papers on Mary Carr and VIPs in Ripper fiction. I gave a paper on Catherine Eddowes in Ripper fiction.

I’ve been wanting to come along to Crime Central Manchester for so long and today I’ve booked a last-minute ticket and have just hopped onto a train to Manchester! So looking forward to it!

I had a wonderful time at Crime Central Manchester tonight! What a brilliant panel - Heather Critchlow, Antony Johnston (@antonyjohnston elsewhere, too) and Rachel Wolf Author/Rachael Blok, with interviewer extraordinaire Rob Parker! Thanks for making me feel so welcome!!

There’s still time to book tickets for ‘Cads and Criminality’ my #JaneAusten and detective fiction event at the University of Chester Festival of Ideas on 3rd July. Tickets are free and available here: festivalofideas.chester.ac.uk/event/cads-and…

I have some new books for my TBR pile after last night’s brilliant Crime Central Manchester event. So looking forward to reading these books by Rachel Wolf Author/Rachael Blok, Antony Johnston (@antonyjohnston elsewhere, too), Heather Critchlow and Rob Parker.

Lots of great free events on at the University of Chester Festival of Ideas this week. You can still book here for my free talk on Jane Austen and detective fiction on 3rd July, 1.30pm at Chester Town Hall: festivalofideas.chester.ac.uk/event/cads-and… #JaneAusten250 #ChesterIdeas

I’m set up and ready to write!

The perfect day to start reading Rachel Wolf Author/Rachael Blok’s Sun Trap! Head of Zeus Aries Fiction

Bargain alert! Into the Fire is only 99p for the month of July on Kindle. 99p!?!?!?! I mean, what can you ACTUALLY buy for 99p these days!? Haha Please share share share, means the world to see my books out in the world and would love to see this one flying high.

I love my outdoor office!

One of my little minions! (Actually, I’m the minion!)

Privilege has a price. But who will pay it...? Succession meets The White Lotus in this clever and compulsive summer thriller about dark family secrets and an inheritance to die for – but who will get what they deserve? Out now: amzn.to/4iExvDF Rachel North

Reading Richard Osman’s new #ThursdayMurderClub book and doing the obligatory cackle-and-then-read-half-of-it-out-to-my-husband routine. #TheImpossibleFortune

Absolutely loving The Pantaloons’ production of Sense and Sensibility at Shrewsbury Castle! #JaneAusten250

I was delighted to be part of Katie Lumsden 📚’s video project where authors discuss their favourite Jane Austen novel. What is your favourite Austen novel? #JaneAusten250 m.youtube.com/watch?v=WTC8LY…