Faith, Fiction, Friends

Agatha Christie has the distinction of being the only crime writer who created two equally famous and revered characters – Miss Jane Marple ...

Agatha Christie wrote a slew of short stories. Many featured her celebrated detectives, Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple, and a few inclu...

When I was writing my historical novel  Brookhaven , I almost stumbled into using the poetry of  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow  as a literary d...

My interest in reading, and writing, short stories has been growing for years. It started with the five Dancing Priest novels, which provide...

Hercule Poirot? Yes. Miss Jane Marple? Yes. Tommy and Tuppence Beresford? Yes. General mystery stories? Yes.  Ghost stories? No. Except the ...

The story starts with a flashback. Detective Inspector Gareth Benedict of the North Wales Police is on a holiday with his wife Heather. And ...

If I were asked to name women in the Bible, my answer would come out rather perfunctory. Other than Eve, my answer would gravitate to the Ne...

Until the late 1970s, my reading of science fiction was limited to the stories and novels of  Ray Bradbury ,  Stranger in a Strange Land  by...

It’s not exactly a confession, but I have the textbook I used for English in my senior year of high school,  England in Literature . It’s no...

I was on a multi-day business trip to Washington, D.C. I had a free afternoon, so I walked from the hotel to the National Gallery on the Mal...

DCI Harry Grimm, somewhat “exiled” from the police force in Bristol to one in Yorkshire. And Yorkshire, even the idea of eating cheese with ...

You can learn a lot from a sycomore fig tree. Ask author  Christine Norvell . The first thing is the spelling of “sycomore.” I had to fight ...