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Murder-mystery on Hartland's coast
When I wrote the second Esme Quentin mystery, The Indelible Stain, I'd already decided where it would be set. The rugged coastline of...
Wendy Percival
Jun 25, 20181 min read
The Whitechapel Murders - a family connection!
I knew my ancestor, Ernest Ellisdon, had served in the Metropolitan police force as a constable but it wasn't until yesterday - the...
Wendy Percival
Jun 20, 20182 min read
The Whitechapel Murders - a family connection
I knew my ancestor, Ernest Ellisdon, had served in the Metropolitan police force as a constable but it wasn't until yesterday - the...
Wendy Percival
Jun 20, 20182 min read
A compelling #WW2 read
I’ve had Kathryn Gauci’s book, Conspiracy of Lies, on my TBR list for a while. After researching WW2’s Special Operations Executives for...
Wendy Percival
Jun 19, 20182 min read
Secrets and crime - a #genealogy #mystery writer's bread and butter!
As any family historian will agree, researching your ancestors is rather like being a detective following a trail of evidence to get to...
Wendy Percival
Jun 17, 20182 min read
Secrets and crime - a #genealogy #mystery writer's bread and butter!
As any family historian will agree, researching your ancestors is rather like being a detective following a trail of evidence to get to...
Wendy Percival
Jun 17, 20182 min read
A compelling WW2 read
I’ve had Kathryn Gauci’s book, Conspiracy of Lies, on my TBR list for a while. After researching WW2’s Special Operations Executives for...
Wendy Percival
Jun 13, 20182 min read
Terror of a #WW2 bomb - was Jack to blame?
As children we loved to hear our mum tell her childhood story of the night she was almost killed and our gran's bravery in saving her....
Wendy Percival
Jun 8, 20182 min read
Terror of a WW2 bomb - was Jack to blame?
As children we loved to hear our mum tell her childhood story of the night she was almost killed and our gran's bravery in saving her....
Wendy Percival
Jun 8, 20182 min read
An unusual take on a Whodunnit
I've always loved Anthony Horowitz's TV series Foyles War, but I'd never read any of his novels. So I was keen to read Magpie Murders...
Wendy Percival
Jun 1, 20181 min read