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The Ides of Audible

The Case of the Case of Kilcladdich launched officially on March 1st, unofficially on February 21st, was on most platforms by February 23rd, and it’s available as of today, the ides of March, on Audible. Tim Bruce assumes the voices of a cast of almost all Scots in the sixth Anty Boisjoly Mystery, in which […]

Launch Day for RMS Ballast

Today (assuming it’s still March 1st by the time this message reaches civilisation) Mystery and Malice aboard RMS Ballast leaves dry dock for a stormy saga spanning the centuries and the seven seas. This time it’s deadly weather, pirate treasure, and all-too-clever locked-stateroom murder that tests Anty’s talent for mysterious malice, even though the suspects […]

Boisjoly Back in Buccaneering Baffler!

Mystery and Malice aboard RMS Ballast, the eighth Anty Boisjoly Mystery, embarks for the open seas on March 1st and, finally, we have a pirate number. Anty, Vickers, Inspector Wittersham, and a passenger list of howling eccentrics find themselves prey to the sway and spray of the Scilly Seas when what at first seems a […]

Spam Recipes

Example of spam, from this February’s newsletter and the seance scene in Foreboding Foretelling at Ficklehouse Felling. Recently a global new methodology has been introduced to combat junk mail. The measure, in simple terms, requires that mass mailings be sent from a high-level domain the DNS settings for which include specific DMARC entries pointing to […]

A Twisty Misty Listeny Mystery

Production is sufficiently advanced to lay claim to a publication date for the audiobook of The Case of the Case of Kilcladdich, Anty’s twisty misty whisky mystery. Tim Bruce returns this time as Anty and Vickers and two entire Scottish villages, sheep included, and manages to keep everyone distinct and distilled and delightful, even after […]

Anty Boisjoly Newsletter Archive

Somehow over the last year, on rare occasion, Anty Boisjoly escaped the books and appeared in several single-frame cartoons, inspired by the sort of thing that Punch was doing in the 1920s. In the main, these cartoons were happy enough doing what social media content is meant to do — make a few billionaires microscopically […]

Foreboding Foretelling at Ficklehouse Felling is Finally Finished and Finessed

Anty Boisjoly is back with his reddest-of-herringed, twistiest-of-turned, locked-roomiest manor house mystery yet. It’s a classic, manor house, mystery-within-a-locked-room-mystery for Anty Boisjoly, when a death is foretold by a mystic that Anty’s sure is a charlatan. But when an impossible murder follows the foretelling, Anty and his old ally and nemesis Inspector Wittersham must sift […]

Reckoning at the Riviera Royale Real Release on Audible

Two weeks ago was meant to be the official launch of Reckoning at the Riviera Royale audiobook and, technically, it was, except for Audible, who likes to play hard-to-get. Finally, Tim Bruce and his personal cast of a dozen accents and attitudes is on Audible as of today (October 25th) reading Reckoning at the Riviera […]

Release of the Riviera Royale

Production is now complete on the audiobook of Reckoning at the Riviera Royale and it’s due to make itself heard on the 13th of October (that’s Friday the 13th, quite deliberately — the gods of gaffes and scheduling have been so kind to us we felt it just had to be some sort of sign). […]

Foreboding Foretelling at Ficklehouse Felling Cover Reveal

In the absence of a concrete release date, which was last seen consorting with some unruly delays and dubious planning around the end of the month, here’s the all-but-guaranteed-final-draft of the cover of Foreboding Foretelling at Ficklehouse Felling. It’s a classic, manor house, mystery-within-a-locked-room-mystery when a death is foretold by a mystic that Anty Boijoly […]