What the Book is About DCI Karen Pirie and Scotland’s Historic Cases Unit investigate two seemingly unrelated cold cases. When a motorway landslide uncovers the 11-year-old remains of a missing investigative journalist who was once the prime suspect in his fiancée’s murder, Karen must untangle what he was digging into before he died. At the […]
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What the Book is About There’s a lot going on in this novel. A body is found in a remote location. Police can’t immediately identify the body, and one of the detectives suspects he might have been murdered. Freya Sinclair is investigating police corruption and DI Fergus Muir is helping her. The disappearance of a
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Post 2: Two people are buried in the same grave. One died in 1919. The other in 1946. They have different surnames and, so far as I can tell, no obvious connection. And the woman seems not to have existed until she died.This is the first mystery of The Cemetery Project. In my introductory post, I
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I’ve always been fascinated by old cemeteries. The Cemetery Project explores forgotten lives through historical research and imaginative fiction.
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After camping in almost 40º heat, we spent the next two days with Nora, Colleen’s friend from their Joburg days, her husband Peter, and their daughter Kristel. They live on a wine farm in the French countryside in a setting from a movie. In fact, during this visit, they told us how their new lifestyle
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I start this story with reminding you that one needs realistic expectations and a sense of humour when travelling, and even more so with road trips.
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