A Crime Through Time (Miss Darcy Investigates) by Amelia Blackwell

Pemberley, 1799, Georgiana Darcy, trying to escape from an unwanted marriage proposal, finds herself catapulted through time to Saltram, 1995, where a film crew is filming a Jane Austen adaptation. When she's the only witness to a crime there, she realises that she's been sent there to investigate! With the help of a handsome, Irish …

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The Witch Finder by Tracy Whitwell (Accidental Medium #5)

When Tanz and her mother start having dark dreams about witch burnings, she returns to her hometown of Newcastle to find out more. She soon uncovers the towns shame: centuries before, a psychopath worked as a Witch Finder to torture women and host a mass hanging, and the town had tried to cover it up. …

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Why We Click: The Emerging Science Of Interpersonal Synchrony by Kate Murphy

We all know someone who can read a room, and someone who can't read others at all. We've made friends instantly with someone, or admired someone's social ease, or have read someone's body language from across the room. What is going on when we meet people, when we feel comfortable building a relationship or repulsed …

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Influencers Who Kill by Madison Salters

In this book, Madison Salters has curated nine cases of murder and crime that involve influencers, either as victims or perpetrators, from all over the world. Cases like Trey Sesler, Pekka-Eric Auvinen and Yuka Takaoka and more, each of which explore how this recently emerging career path, that of influencer or content creator, has created …

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My Writing: Here Lies Buried – Understanding Ourselves Through Public Figures Who Left Us In 2024, edited by Lee Fearnside.

Here Lies Buried is, according to the publishers website, "a collection of essays inspired by celebrities who died in 2024. Part celebration, part reflection and part meditation on what else felt like it died in 2024. Famous people include: Melanie, David Soul, Nex Benedict, Alexei Navalny, Shelley Duvall, Shannen Doherty, James Earl Jones, Dame Maggie …

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Murder On The Trail by Michelle Kaminsky

"Mysteries, Deaths and Disappearances in National Parks". This little volume with it's startling cover photo covers cases from the 1920's to the 2020s that have mystified and fascinated investigators and true crime readers for decades. As the opening chapter lets us know, National Parks can be appealing to criminals because the isolation of the location …

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