Blogs in March 2023

Local Resistance 8th March 2023

Make Do and Murder . . . Porthferris near Looe in Cornwall is a little fishing village with a lot of secrets. On a stormy night in March, 1941, Maisie Rose Hawkins leaves her husband, Stan, drunk as usual,...

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Private Lives 3rd January 2022

Cozy crime with a sinister twist in wartime England. While reluctant wartime detective Bob Robbins is enjoying a few days’ holiday on the North Devon coast he becomes involved in a shooting incident on a derelict farm. An elderly...

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A Turning Wind 3rd January 2022

Would you trust Ludo da Portovenere? From the trading colony of Goa to the royal courts of England and Spain, Ludo da Portovenere fulfils dangerous secret commissions for three kingdoms on his own terms, and for his own reasons....

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By Force of Circumstance 3rd January 2022

“For sale: the English Crown Jewels” Ludo da Portovenere returns to his former piratical ways when the Queen of England commissions him to sell priceless gems to raise money for the Royalist cause during the Civil War. But will...

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The Chosen Man 23rd December 2021

Book 1 in The Chosen Man Trilogy Spring 1635, a storm and pirate raid interrupt wily rogue and Genoese merchant Ludovico da Portovenere’s voyage from Constantinople to Amsterdam, disrupting his plans and entangling others in a papal conspiracy that...

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