U R Dead

Posted by Simon Parke, 19 Sep 2017

On holiday this year, I read my first Peter James thriller.

I have a particular interest.

He’s a local boy, a Brighton author, who writes about a Brighton detective, Roy Grace; while I write about a monk/detective, Abbot Peter,
just twelve miles along the coast in Stormhaven. (Real-life Seaford.)

So there’s the smell of the sea in both murder mystery series; but perhaps there the similarities end…

Agatha Christie's most elusive mystery

Posted by Simon Parke, 16 Sep 2017

In 1926, Agatha Christie was already a successful author.

Her sixth novel, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, was selling well; she was a household name.

And then something strange happened: for eleven days in December of that year, she disappeared…

Time is personal

Posted by Simon Parke, 16 Sep 2017

Has it ever struck you that time is a rather personal matter?

‘Time is the substance we are made of,’ wrote Jorge Luis Borges, the 20th C writer and philosopher.

We are flesh and bones…and the experience of time…