[ About The Glass Key ] In Ireland, Maggie has grown up hearing her mother tell her the bedtime story of The Glass Key. It’s a Nordic fairytale passed down by Maggie’s grandmother Anna Swan, who mysteriously left her home one stormy night years ago, never to return. Now Maggie’s grandfather has died and going through…
[ About In The Killer’s Sight ] When her niece disappears, a K-9 officer returns to the home of her own childhood trauma to track down a killer who hunts women like prey—and face the past that continues to haunt her. Officer Kate Marino has a complicated relationship with her hometown. But there’s one thing…
[ About Solitary Agents ] EVERY TRAITOR WAS ONCE TRUSTED…. Jamie Tulloch and Sam Li never intended to be spies. Jamie, a former exec at a tech company, found himself caught up in a mission and discovered a taste for the secret world while Sam, a burnt-out corporate lawyer, was unexpectedly talent spotted by MI5.…
Inspired by real events during the Biafran War (1967–1970), The Healers’ War follows three lives bound together by famine, faith, and survival in a besieged corner of Eastern Nigeria. [ About The Healer’s War ] As war encroaches upon their region, Irish missionaries refuse to flee, instead building feeding centers, clinics, and a secret airstrip…
The banana is the most eaten fruit in the world – but its future is under threat. [ About The Future of Bananas ] The bananas that we see in our supermarkets, eat for breakfast and blend into our smoothies are facing possible extinction. First cultivated thousands of years ago in the tropics of Southeast…
Today, for my final Write Smarter Blog post, I am delighted to welcome Sheena Wilkinson. I would just like to take this opportunity to thank every writer who willingly shared their advice with us all. It’s very much appreciated and I do hope you all discovered some nuggets of wisdom to assist you on your…
[ About Mithim ] Wexford, 1657. Ireland is on its knees. Eight years after Cromwell’s army burned Killenea Castle to the ground, Mithim McMurrough – daughter of a Gaelic lord, healer and last keeper of her family’s secrets – is living alone and in hiding in the depths of a Wexford forest. The soldiers are…
[ About The Secrets We Hide ] The house at 1601 Iris Drive looks like any other in the quiet, residential street. But rumours are rife about the Vickery family, and what goes on behind closed doors. Then one afternoon gunshots ring out. Allison Vickery is found murdered in her own kitchen, her teenage daughter…
[ About If These Walls Could Talk ] SUSPENSE LIES IN THE SHADOWS OF RURAL IRELAND… Hazel McDermott is on the phone with her husband Darragh when she hears the screech of tyres. The jeep he was driving is soon found, overturned in a field off the motorway, but Darragh has vanished. As the days…
Today on Write Smarter I am delighted to welcome Roxie Key, a crime thriller author from Northampton. She has always been a writer, although the stories she wrote as a child about her pets will never see the light of day. From a young age, she knew that one day she wanted to see her…