by Nia Beynon | Oct 14, 2025 | Uncategorized
Murder in Venice, book number 13 in the Armstrong and Oscar Cozy mystery series, is set in Venice. Venice is a city that occupies a very special place in my heart, in spite of the fact that I lived in Italy for over eight years and never visited the city even once....
by Nia Beynon | Oct 9, 2025 | Uncategorized
Don’t forget to start reading Anita Davison’s Murder at the Wedding, out now! Spanish Influenza – This was the year the Spanish Flu took hold in the country. Strangely the virus did not begin in Spain, however one of its earliest victims was King...
by Nia Beynon | Oct 2, 2025 | Uncategorized
The Victorians long had a fascination with death, science and religion so when, in 1848, two sisters from New York claimed they could communicate with the dead, it kicked off the spiritualist movement, a phenomenon that peaked in the 1880s, but still has followers...
by Nia Beynon | Sep 16, 2025 | Uncategorized
In nineteen thirty-nine when war broke out the government had already started providing air raid shelters for their civilians. There was an Anderson shelter, Morrison shelter, A surface brick and concrete shelter, basements and cellars, trenches, the London...
by Nia Beynon | Sep 16, 2025 | Uncategorized
I am currently writing my thirty-sixth book, so I suppose it is inevitable that after that many stories I have mined both my own life experiences, and those of the people around me, as inspiration for my novels. To date, my most personal story was probably A Mother’s...