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January 2, 2017
Out now: A Collision With Reality
My alter ego's new short is released today. It's the first of a series of short stories, but can be read as a standalone. More details below:
Flynn’s new boss is so hot he can’t wait to get home to tell the chatroom how much he wants Dom’s cock down his throat. By Friday, he’s shared quite a few thoughts on what he’d like his boss to do to him. But he’s not as anonymous as he thinks, and Dom’s intent on disciplining him for breaching company policy on social networking. Dom gives him a choice of put up or shut up: he can play out the fantasy in real life, or he can walk out of the office without a word to HR as long as he never talks that way about Dom again. Flynn chooses “put up”—but he’s forgotten about one of the things he said he wouldn’t mind doing.
ISBN: 978-1-9459-5236-4
Series: In Like Flynn 1
NineStar Press (where you can find an excerpt)
Amazon US
Amazon UK
Amazon: Australia ¦ Brazil ¦ Canada ¦ France ¦ Germany ¦ India ¦ Italy ¦ Japan ¦ Netherlands ¦ Spain
Or search on your local Amazon using ASIN: B01MZ2891M
Barnes & Noble
SmashWords
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Flynn’s new boss is so hot he can’t wait to get home to tell the chatroom how much he wants Dom’s cock down his throat. By Friday, he’s shared quite a few thoughts on what he’d like his boss to do to him. But he’s not as anonymous as he thinks, and Dom’s intent on disciplining him for breaching company policy on social networking. Dom gives him a choice of put up or shut up: he can play out the fantasy in real life, or he can walk out of the office without a word to HR as long as he never talks that way about Dom again. Flynn chooses “put up”—but he’s forgotten about one of the things he said he wouldn’t mind doing.
ISBN: 978-1-9459-5236-4
Series: In Like Flynn 1
NineStar Press (where you can find an excerpt)
Amazon US
Amazon UK
Amazon: Australia ¦ Brazil ¦ Canada ¦ France ¦ Germany ¦ India ¦ Italy ¦ Japan ¦ Netherlands ¦ Spain
Or search on your local Amazon using ASIN: B01MZ2891M
Barnes & Noble
SmashWords
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December 31, 2016
Gareth Thomas 1945-2016
The year's almost done, and many of us will not be sorry to see it go. We've lost too many this year; the friends, the famous, the icons of our youth. For me that includes someone who fell under all three headings. I have tried for months to write this entry. I am supposed to be a writer, and yet the words slip through my fingers as I try to type.
One of the things about science fiction fandom is that there are friends you only ever see at cons, who you may not even communicate with outside cons, who are yet good and dear friends you fall upon with cries of joy and take up the conversation with as if it had not been months since you last spoke. For me Gareth Thomas was not just one of these friends, but the one I'd known longest. Nearly twenty-one years ago I decided that it was time to go to one of these cons I'd been hearing about in books and magazines over the years, and when I checked the con listings in the small ads in one of those magazines, I found there would be one only an hour's drive away, with one of my favourite actors from one of my favourite shows on the guest list.
So I went to the con, and to Gareth's panels. He was funny, and thoughtful, and he appreciated his fans. When he wasn't in a panel he was in the bar, talking to anyone who wanted to stay and chat, about all sorts of things. He talked a lot of the craft of acting, and about live theatre, not just the tv shows that made him famous. He talked about other things as well, entirely unrelated to his job.
He did it again at the next con I went to where he was a guest - and with his actor's prodigious memory he remembered he'd talked to me before, even though I was a stranger he'd seen only once some months earlier. And so it went on, and somewhere between the cons and the stage doors and the theatre bars he slipped from being "actor I am fan of" to "friend I hang out with in the bar at coms". There are people who are not science fiction fans themselves, but who like hanging out with fans because they enjoy the sort of wide-ranging conversations fans have. Gareth was one of those people, and in turn fans enjoyed hanging out with him for reasons other than those that made him a guest of the con. I remember with fondness one bar conversation with Judith and Gareth that rambled through sundry topics with no connection to science fiction but of interest to fannish types, including the latest on the Sutton Hoo dig. He was quite literally the person I'd known first and longest in fandom.
I was still a fan of his acting, mind; as were other people in a group of us who used him as an excuse to have a theatre weekend outing every so often. I love live theatre, and was a Friend of my local theatre years before I ever met Gareth, but he was an excellent excuse to travel to theatres elsewhere and spend the weekend hanging out with like-minded friends. Gareth would occasionally join us in the theatre bar beforehand for a tea or coffee and a chat about the production. In particular he loved Shakespeare, and he loved making it more accessible to people. It would probably have amused him that I finally managed to set down the first few words of an obituary post while I was waiting in a theatre lobby bar to meet friends before we saw a new production of King Lear.
Most of my older books have at least a minor character who could have been played by Gareth were the book ever to make it to radio or tv. This wasn't subconcious. I didn't *expect* the books to sell to those markets, but writers aren't immune to the fantasy casting game any more than fans in general are. I am terribly envious of one of my friends who did get to hear Gareth speak her words in the form of a Big Finish recording.
Because the thing with Gareth was that he was a superb actor, capable of far more than the roles he was famous for. He was a pragmatic man who reminded us in those con panels and bar conversations that simple logistics meant that more people would watch him in one episode of Blake's 7 than would ever watch him live on stage in his entire career; but he was also a man who deeply loved his job and wanted to play as broad a range as possible. I saw him hold a room spellbound one evening at Redemption, when he had been given a panel slot to read his favourite scenes from Shakespeare. It had been intentionally scheduled against a big draw item in the main hall, so that those who went to the reading did so because "Shakespeare" rather than "Blake". One man, performing selected scenes from a book he held while perched on a table or chair at the front of a small conference room. No scenery, no effects, nothing but that beautiful and controlled voice. You could hear a pin drop. A different evening panel at a different con, but much the same thing - Gareth doing a voice performance in one of the side track in the programme. For one piece he wasn't even in the room. he went through the connecting door to the next room, so that we heard only the voice of a Welsh coal miner trapped after a cave-in. Nearly twenty years on, the hairs are standing up on the back of my neck just remembering that performance.
He was an actor I greatly admired. He was a significant part of how I got into con-going fandom, and thus a large part of my social life. And he was my friend, the person I'd known longest in fandom even if I hadn't seen him in some years. And I miss him every time I think "That would be a great role for Gareth" and then remember that I will never see him on stage again.
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One of the things about science fiction fandom is that there are friends you only ever see at cons, who you may not even communicate with outside cons, who are yet good and dear friends you fall upon with cries of joy and take up the conversation with as if it had not been months since you last spoke. For me Gareth Thomas was not just one of these friends, but the one I'd known longest. Nearly twenty-one years ago I decided that it was time to go to one of these cons I'd been hearing about in books and magazines over the years, and when I checked the con listings in the small ads in one of those magazines, I found there would be one only an hour's drive away, with one of my favourite actors from one of my favourite shows on the guest list.
So I went to the con, and to Gareth's panels. He was funny, and thoughtful, and he appreciated his fans. When he wasn't in a panel he was in the bar, talking to anyone who wanted to stay and chat, about all sorts of things. He talked a lot of the craft of acting, and about live theatre, not just the tv shows that made him famous. He talked about other things as well, entirely unrelated to his job.
He did it again at the next con I went to where he was a guest - and with his actor's prodigious memory he remembered he'd talked to me before, even though I was a stranger he'd seen only once some months earlier. And so it went on, and somewhere between the cons and the stage doors and the theatre bars he slipped from being "actor I am fan of" to "friend I hang out with in the bar at coms". There are people who are not science fiction fans themselves, but who like hanging out with fans because they enjoy the sort of wide-ranging conversations fans have. Gareth was one of those people, and in turn fans enjoyed hanging out with him for reasons other than those that made him a guest of the con. I remember with fondness one bar conversation with Judith and Gareth that rambled through sundry topics with no connection to science fiction but of interest to fannish types, including the latest on the Sutton Hoo dig. He was quite literally the person I'd known first and longest in fandom.
I was still a fan of his acting, mind; as were other people in a group of us who used him as an excuse to have a theatre weekend outing every so often. I love live theatre, and was a Friend of my local theatre years before I ever met Gareth, but he was an excellent excuse to travel to theatres elsewhere and spend the weekend hanging out with like-minded friends. Gareth would occasionally join us in the theatre bar beforehand for a tea or coffee and a chat about the production. In particular he loved Shakespeare, and he loved making it more accessible to people. It would probably have amused him that I finally managed to set down the first few words of an obituary post while I was waiting in a theatre lobby bar to meet friends before we saw a new production of King Lear.
Most of my older books have at least a minor character who could have been played by Gareth were the book ever to make it to radio or tv. This wasn't subconcious. I didn't *expect* the books to sell to those markets, but writers aren't immune to the fantasy casting game any more than fans in general are. I am terribly envious of one of my friends who did get to hear Gareth speak her words in the form of a Big Finish recording.
Because the thing with Gareth was that he was a superb actor, capable of far more than the roles he was famous for. He was a pragmatic man who reminded us in those con panels and bar conversations that simple logistics meant that more people would watch him in one episode of Blake's 7 than would ever watch him live on stage in his entire career; but he was also a man who deeply loved his job and wanted to play as broad a range as possible. I saw him hold a room spellbound one evening at Redemption, when he had been given a panel slot to read his favourite scenes from Shakespeare. It had been intentionally scheduled against a big draw item in the main hall, so that those who went to the reading did so because "Shakespeare" rather than "Blake". One man, performing selected scenes from a book he held while perched on a table or chair at the front of a small conference room. No scenery, no effects, nothing but that beautiful and controlled voice. You could hear a pin drop. A different evening panel at a different con, but much the same thing - Gareth doing a voice performance in one of the side track in the programme. For one piece he wasn't even in the room. he went through the connecting door to the next room, so that we heard only the voice of a Welsh coal miner trapped after a cave-in. Nearly twenty years on, the hairs are standing up on the back of my neck just remembering that performance.
He was an actor I greatly admired. He was a significant part of how I got into con-going fandom, and thus a large part of my social life. And he was my friend, the person I'd known longest in fandom even if I hadn't seen him in some years. And I miss him every time I think "That would be a great role for Gareth" and then remember that I will never see him on stage again.
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December 28, 2016
***Don't buy books from All Romance eBooks***
Last night/today All Romance eBooks sent out emails to authors and readers notifying them that the site is closing on 31 December. Readers have until then to back up their library. Authors and publishers are being offered 10c on the dollar for the Quarter 4 royalties up until 27 December. *No* royalties will be paid on any sales after then. Some readers with credit are reporting that their credit has been wiped. Readers who pre-ordered had to pay up front on order - that money will not be returned and they won't get the books.
DO NOT BUY MY BOOKS FROM ARE. I will not see the money. Neither will my publisher, who paid for the editing and cover art on my books. Don't buy anyone else's books either. You may not even get the books you've paid for.
Authors - get on there *now* and get your books off, because ARe has continued to sell books at full price, after announcing they're not going to pay the authors what they're owed.
Kudos to those publishers who've already said they'll honour pre-orders directly for people affected by the pre-order thing.
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DO NOT BUY MY BOOKS FROM ARE. I will not see the money. Neither will my publisher, who paid for the editing and cover art on my books. Don't buy anyone else's books either. You may not even get the books you've paid for.
Authors - get on there *now* and get your books off, because ARe has continued to sell books at full price, after announcing they're not going to pay the authors what they're owed.
Kudos to those publishers who've already said they'll honour pre-orders directly for people affected by the pre-order thing.
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December 24, 2016
New release: In Like Flynn 1
Some news on the writing front - I've sold a short story series to NineStar Press, and the opening story is now available for pre-order before release day on 2 January 2017. :-) Details below, along with selected links (I haven't had a chance to chase them all down yet, but am assured by my Shadowy Mistresses that it will be available in all the usual places).
Yes, that is a new pen name on the cover. This is because I decided a while back to have a separate pen name for material that's erotica rather than erotic romance. The primary reason is simply so that readers who were expecting a HEA or HFN aren't disappointed. It so happens that my long term plan for this series will involve a HFN, but this specific bit of it is basically two guys in an office thinking "I would not kick that out of bed on a cold night".
A Collision with Reality
by Storm Duffy
Flynn’s new boss is so hot he can’t wait to get home to tell the chatroom how much he wants Dom’s cock down his throat. By Friday, he’s shared quite a few thoughts on what he’d like his boss to do to him. But he’s not as anonymous as he thinks, and Dom’s intent on disciplining him for breaching company policy on social networking. Dom gives him a choice of put up or shut up: he can play out the fantasy in real life, or he can walk out of the office without a word to HR as long as he never talks that way about Dom again. Flynn chooses “put up”—but he’s forgotten about one of the things he said he wouldn’t mind doing.
NineStar Press (where you can find an excerpt)
All Romance eBooks (where you can find an excerpt)
Amazon US
Amazon UK
SmashWords
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Yes, that is a new pen name on the cover. This is because I decided a while back to have a separate pen name for material that's erotica rather than erotic romance. The primary reason is simply so that readers who were expecting a HEA or HFN aren't disappointed. It so happens that my long term plan for this series will involve a HFN, but this specific bit of it is basically two guys in an office thinking "I would not kick that out of bed on a cold night".
A Collision with Reality
by Storm Duffy
Flynn’s new boss is so hot he can’t wait to get home to tell the chatroom how much he wants Dom’s cock down his throat. By Friday, he’s shared quite a few thoughts on what he’d like his boss to do to him. But he’s not as anonymous as he thinks, and Dom’s intent on disciplining him for breaching company policy on social networking. Dom gives him a choice of put up or shut up: he can play out the fantasy in real life, or he can walk out of the office without a word to HR as long as he never talks that way about Dom again. Flynn chooses “put up”—but he’s forgotten about one of the things he said he wouldn’t mind doing.
NineStar Press (where you can find an excerpt)
All Romance eBooks (where you can find an excerpt)
Amazon US
Amazon UK
SmashWords
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October 23, 2016
book log: 2016 Hugos
I'm working my way through my treeware notebook, and have found some notes from my Hugo reading stint which it appears I never posted at the time. Here, have some belated Hugo thoughts. :-)
Naomi Kritzer -- Cat pictures please
Gentle, funny short about what happens when a search engine wakes up and wants to be helpful. It has more sense than to expose its existence, so it tries to do good deeds by stealth. I was smiling on every page. Lovely if slightly creepy little story about the potential benefits of AI.
Available free at http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kritzer_01_15/
Brooke Bolander -- And You Shall Know Her By The Trail Of Dead
Take one part pulp, one part cyberpunk, add a shot of very cheap bourbon, and shake well. Watch the resulting foul mouthed guttersnipe of a synthetic person take on a security AI at its own game; or maybe the reverse. Bolander sketches in some fascinating world building with a few brief sentences, but the focus is on the rescue mission Rhye’s been press-ganged into. It’s a fast moving tale with a satisfying conclusion, and deserves a spot on the Hugo ballot.
Available free at http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/shall-know-trail-dead/
Chuck Tingle -- Space Raptor Butt Invasion
Okay. There’s back story on what this is doing on the Hugo ballot. It is not your typical nominee. Onwards…
Our hero is one of two men (definitely men) manning a remote observation station somewhere on a remote planet. The story opens as his teammate leaves at the end of his assignment, with no replacement arriving. Budget cuts mean the station will be solo manned from now on, and our hero will be the only living thing on the planet. So what is that mysterious space suited figure he thinks he’s seen?
So far, it’s a pitch perfect pastiche of Golden Age pulp. I have read the stories. I could make a guess at what happens next.
What happens next is that it segues into a pastiche of pulp gay porn, only with two guys stuck with solo duty on their respective nation’s planetary observation base. One of whom is a dinosaur...
Dr Tingle had far too much fun ramming every possible porn cliché into his tight virgin word processor. This is really not my taste in porn, not least because it pastiches bad pulp punctuation, but it’s very funny. My verdict as a Hugo voter is that this story gets No Awarded, but I am nominating the good Doctor’s performance art in response to its nomination for next year’s Best Related Work category.
Amazon UK
Amazon US
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Naomi Kritzer -- Cat pictures please
Gentle, funny short about what happens when a search engine wakes up and wants to be helpful. It has more sense than to expose its existence, so it tries to do good deeds by stealth. I was smiling on every page. Lovely if slightly creepy little story about the potential benefits of AI.
Available free at http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/kritzer_01_15/
Brooke Bolander -- And You Shall Know Her By The Trail Of Dead
Take one part pulp, one part cyberpunk, add a shot of very cheap bourbon, and shake well. Watch the resulting foul mouthed guttersnipe of a synthetic person take on a security AI at its own game; or maybe the reverse. Bolander sketches in some fascinating world building with a few brief sentences, but the focus is on the rescue mission Rhye’s been press-ganged into. It’s a fast moving tale with a satisfying conclusion, and deserves a spot on the Hugo ballot.
Available free at http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/shall-know-trail-dead/
Chuck Tingle -- Space Raptor Butt Invasion
Okay. There’s back story on what this is doing on the Hugo ballot. It is not your typical nominee. Onwards…
Our hero is one of two men (definitely men) manning a remote observation station somewhere on a remote planet. The story opens as his teammate leaves at the end of his assignment, with no replacement arriving. Budget cuts mean the station will be solo manned from now on, and our hero will be the only living thing on the planet. So what is that mysterious space suited figure he thinks he’s seen?
So far, it’s a pitch perfect pastiche of Golden Age pulp. I have read the stories. I could make a guess at what happens next.
What happens next is that it segues into a pastiche of pulp gay porn, only with two guys stuck with solo duty on their respective nation’s planetary observation base. One of whom is a dinosaur...
Dr Tingle had far too much fun ramming every possible porn cliché into his tight virgin word processor. This is really not my taste in porn, not least because it pastiches bad pulp punctuation, but it’s very funny. My verdict as a Hugo voter is that this story gets No Awarded, but I am nominating the good Doctor’s performance art in response to its nomination for next year’s Best Related Work category.
Amazon UK
Amazon US
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October 2, 2016
short story sale
I've sold an erotica short to NineStar Press, now through editing and expected release date early January. More details later, but just thought I'd get that out there. :-)
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August 25, 2016
book purchase rec
Quick note from the Amazon 99p bargains - I read the first book from Angela Roquet's Reapers series a while back. That's usually free as a series hook, but right now the boxset of the first three books is 99p on Amazon UK. I liked the first one well enough that I'd recommend going along to your online bookstore of choice and checking out the blurb.
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Quick note from the Amazon 99p bargains - I read the first book from Angela Roquet's Reapers series a while back. That's usually free as a series hook, but right now the boxset of the first three books is 99p on Amazon UK. I liked the first one well enough that I'd recommend going along to your online bookstore of choice and checking out the blurb.
<a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lost-Limbo-H... UK</a>
<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Limbo-Har... US</a>
or A$1.99 on <a ref="https://www.amazon.com.au/s/ref=nb_sb... Australia</a>.
Alas, it seems to have already gone back up to full price on Smashwords since I bought it, but it's still very reaosnably priced for those who prefer epub.
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Quick note from the Amazon 99p bargains - I read the first book from Angela Roquet's Reapers series a while back. That's usually free as a series hook, but right now the boxset of the first three books is 99p on Amazon UK. I liked the first one well enough that I'd recommend going along to your online bookstore of choice and checking out the blurb.
<a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lost-Limbo-H... UK</a>
<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Limbo-Har... US</a>
or A$1.99 on <a ref="https://www.amazon.com.au/s/ref=nb_sb... Australia</a>.
Alas, it seems to have already gone back up to full price on Smashwords since I bought it, but it's still very reaosnably priced for those who prefer epub.
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July 20, 2016
Vikings on Mars
Today is, of course, the anniversary of the first human landing on the Moon. My parents tell me they put me in front of the tv to watch it, although I have no memory of this. The first spacecraft landing I can remember was on the same day seven years later. Viking 1 touched down on the surface of Mars forty years ago today. I can still remember very clearly my excitement watching a popular science show on tv explaining beforehand how the various instruments and experiments would work, and my sense of wonder at seeing the first images.
Forty years on I'm following the current Mars lander's twitter account. Curiosity's a chatty little robot, or at least the humans behind the account are. Time and technology march on. But still I remember the awe with which I watched that slow scan build up into a panorama of the Martian landscape.
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Forty years on I'm following the current Mars lander's twitter account. Curiosity's a chatty little robot, or at least the humans behind the account are. Time and technology march on. But still I remember the awe with which I watched that slow scan build up into a panorama of the Martian landscape.
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July 1, 2016
Somme Centenary
Today is the centenary of the start of the Battle of the Somme; a wound that still gapes raw in the psyche of the United Kingdom and across the Commonwealth, even though it is a hundred years and the last survivor has gone. There have been commemorations across the country and beyond.
I went to watch the lunchtime parade from the Cenotaph to Manchester Cathedral. The crowd was relatively thin where I was, so I was right at the front leaning on the fencing. A regimental brass band is *very* loud when it's passing three feet in front of you... The parade included descendents, veterans of later wars, and a group of Chelsea Pensioners in ceremonial uniform.
And then on the way home after work I had two encounters with the #WeAreHere ghost soldiers. A group of them were singing on the steps outside Marks and Spencers as I walked up St Mary's Gate towards the bus station. I stopped and watched until they finished, shouldered arms, and marched away down New Cathedral Street. I went on my way, and as I walked up Market Street towards the bus station another section marched past. Ghosts of the past, brought to life for this one day. By then people knew about them, but it was still an eerie and deeply moving experience, and I'm not surprised that my colleagues who encountered them at the railway stations early this morning found it very emotional.
Lest we forget.
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I went to watch the lunchtime parade from the Cenotaph to Manchester Cathedral. The crowd was relatively thin where I was, so I was right at the front leaning on the fencing. A regimental brass band is *very* loud when it's passing three feet in front of you... The parade included descendents, veterans of later wars, and a group of Chelsea Pensioners in ceremonial uniform.
And then on the way home after work I had two encounters with the #WeAreHere ghost soldiers. A group of them were singing on the steps outside Marks and Spencers as I walked up St Mary's Gate towards the bus station. I stopped and watched until they finished, shouldered arms, and marched away down New Cathedral Street. I went on my way, and as I walked up Market Street towards the bus station another section marched past. Ghosts of the past, brought to life for this one day. By then people knew about them, but it was still an eerie and deeply moving experience, and I'm not surprised that my colleagues who encountered them at the railway stations early this morning found it very emotional.
Lest we forget.
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May 30, 2016
book log 2015: 16) James Runcie -- Sidney Chambers and The Shadow of Death
First of the Grantchester Mysteries series, about a Church of England vicar who solves mysteries in collaboration with one of the local police detectives. The first book is a set of six short stories, each a standalone about an individual case, but with an overall arc running through them. I bought it because I'd seen and enjoyed a couple of episodes of the tv adaptation. This doesn't always mean I'll like a book, but in this case I'm very glad I bought it. It's an excellent period cosy mystery, written by someone who knows the minutiae of Anglican clerical life. The ebook for this one is often low price as a hook for the series, and well worth getting.
Amazon UK
Amazon US
Kobo
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