Cornwall And CrimeFest
I’ve just returned from giving two talks in Cornwall where the sun was shining, the sea was blue and the crowds were flocking to St Ives, which was my first port of call on Tuesday morning at 11am. I met some delightful people as always and my heartfelt thanks to them for listening to me talking about how I write and for buying my books. After a quick sandwich lunch sitting in the cemetery overlooking the bay it was about an hour’s drive to St Austell Library where, once again, I met some lovely people, answered questions about my marine mystery crime novels and signed books before setting homewards. Not a bad trip back to the Solent area except that the drive belt (I think that’s what it’s called) on my Ford Scorpio decided it had had enough travelling for one week and snapped. No power steering (how on earth did we manage before) no air conditioning and a battery light that stayed ominously on making me wonder if we stopped whether we would ever get going again. But we arrived ho...
