Crafts and Life

Breakfast – egg sandwich Lunch – egg sandwich Dinner – Veggie chilli and rice Snack Supper – cheese and crackers Drinks – water (500 ml) x 2, tea with milk (400 ml) x 6, red wine Weight – 22. st 7.5 lb Up at 09.20, realised we had four slices…

Excitement runs high during Presidential election week in 1888. The Woman Suffrage Association plans a demonstration and movement leader Elizabeth Cady Stanton comes to town to rally the troops. When Quaker midwife Rose Carroll finds the body of the group's local organizer the next morning, she can't help but wonder…

Breakfast Lunch – jacket potato with cheese, coleslaw and salad Dinner – veggie chilli and rice Snacks Supper – cheese and crackers Drinks – Water (500 ml) x 1, tea with milk (400 ml) x 2, cider x 3, calvados Weight – 22 st 8 lbs Hmm not sure about…

Halloween in North Carolina’s Outer Banks becomes seriously tricky when librarian Lucy Richardson stumbles across something extra unusual in the rare books section: a dead body.  Wealthy businessman Jay Ruddle is considering donating his extensive collection of North Carolina historical documents to the Bodie Island Lighthouse Library, but the competition…

Breakfast – bread and marmalade Lunch – egg sandwich Dinner – Lentil ragu and pasta Snacks – egg sandwich Supper Drinks – Water (500 ml) x 2, tea with milk (400 ml) x 6, white wine Weight – 22 st 6.75 lbs Again up between 09.00 and 10.00 (went to…

It started as a student exercise, the knife under the drape, the model’s pose chalked in place. But before Agatha Troy, artist and instructor, returns to the class, the pose has been re-enacted in earnest: the model is dead, fixed for ever in one of the most dramatic poses Troy…

When Cupid comes to town it seems everyone’s relationship is in for a challenge. Not only does Zoe suspect that her dad’s new girlfriend is really a killer, but Zoe is the only one who believes that her soon-to- be evil stepmom is guilty of such a dastardly deed. Add…

Every year between the dates of December 1 and December 24, a strange and wonderful insanity hits Ashton Falls. Most refer to this phenomenon as Christmas Spirit, but Zoe has been around long enough to know that spirit usually translates to insanity, which brings on a phenomenon she likes to…

Zoe becomes entangled in a complex murder case involving a dead miser, tipsy turkeys, and an eclectic cast of edacious heirs, when she agrees to help Jeremy in his temporary job at a nearby turkey farm two weeks before Thanksgiving. Zoe was wallowing in self pity (having had the rescue…

January 1954. Mists cover the hills around Selchester. Someone at the research facility known as the Atomic is leaking secrets to Soviet Russia, and when nuclear scientist Bruno Rothesay goes missing, the British Intelligence Services are convinced he’s the mole. Hugo Hawksworth isn’t so sure. Then a body turns up,…