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Ever wondered how your favourite writers research their brilliant books? Well, Diane Saxon is here to demystify the process and tell you all about how she like to research for her psychological thriller books. Research Ahead of Writing a Psychological Thriller I’m a...

The Iris Woodmore Mysteries are set in the 1920s, an era of rapid social change. The Great War is over, the suffragettes have disbanded, and a new generation of women are entering professions for the first time.  Inspiration for Death at Crookham Hall struck in the...

New Year at the French Farmhouse I’ve always been a fan of New Year. Not the actual celebration itself – when you’ve got five kids who get up far too early, the thought of staying up ‘til midnight is NOT appealing – but the turning of a new calendar page and the sense...

Teaching myself to talk Marion, the main character in Because You Loved Me struggles with Selective Mutism, using her ‘Mute Busters’ to try to manage the social anxiety. I didn’t use Mute Busters to cope with Selective Mutism, but like Marion, I did find my own way to...

I freely admit that I was one of the lucky ones. My parents – together for over fifty years – stayed in the home I grew up in. I always had a bed there, if I needed one. I knew I could turn up at the door at any time (all right, my mother would have tutted, and...

I’ve visited the Highlands of Scotland a few times to research The Highland Hens and another novel (yet to be announced,) and I’ve totally fallen in love with the place. So, here is my top ten count down of things about the Highlands that I love, all of which find...

A blog post by Judy Leigh for her brand new Facebook group The Golden Oldies' Book Club | Judy Leigh! I was asked by a local reading group to discuss my novel The Witch’s Tree (Elena Collins) at one of their meetings. I accepted immediately. Not only is it always a...

Dual Narrative Local Girl Missing wasn’t an easy book to write but it was definitely interesting and kept me on my toes. So many times, I had to go back through each chapter and check the clues I had left for the reader, making sure I kept the narrative and plot as...