Where did your books take you........

I sat on Death Row with a convicted murderer ~ Change of heart

I ran with the Bolsheviks in 1915 Russia ~ Sashenka

I laughed out loud in Liverpool ~Paul O'Grady

Struggled with infidelity ~ Second Husband

Solved a murder mystery in Cambridge ~ Gone to Ground

Talked with the Angels ~ An Angel held my Hand

Sprinkled fairy dust and magic ~ The Sugar Queen

Travelled the Road Home ~ The Road Home

Put the oils on the canvas of a Holbein painting in 1527~ Portrait of an Unknown Woman

Dallied a while in the Mountains of Virginia USA ~ Tribute

And currently .........I am travelling to Lake Woebegone USA in the company of Evelyn and a slightly strange angel......who says reading is dull.....

 In Brighton with Roy Grace in Not Dead Enough by Peter James

In a hostage sitaution in The Stand Off by Sandra Brown

Back in London with Tom Thorne in Death Message by Mark Billingham

Amongst the vampires in Twilight by Stephanie Meyer...

In Yorkshire which was Run From Home by Sheila Quigley

East Sussex was the setting for Twilight by Peter James

A Much Married Man by Nicholas Coleridge took me to the cotswolds.....

I was well-travelled in September.

I started the month on a road trip from Bermondsey in London to Margate in Last Orders.  I then spent a lot of time in the USA, firstly on the mean streets of 1970s Washington DC in King Suckerman, then to Florida in All Families are Psychotic, staying in the USA for Choke, then returning to Florida for Dearly Devoted Dexter.  City of God took me to present day New York as well as Poland during the Second World War.  Then it was onto communes in California and Alaska in the 1960s in Drop City.

I briefly left the USA for coastal Ireland in The Sea, but was back to New York again in Naive Super as well some time in Norway.  The Gathering took my between Ireland and Brighton with a bit of time at Gatwick airport.   Leicestershire and Edinburgh were the locations visited in Hallam Foe.   The Book of Lost Things took me to London during the war but also to a strange fairytale land. 

Back to reality with The Outsider in France including a stay in prison.  The Third Man took me to Vienna in the post-war period. I finished the month with a trip to Singapore and Thailand, then returning to New York for 9/11 in The Third Brother.

Spent some time in:

America between the wars: It's Superman, Dugan's Depression Funnies and Bullet for a Star.

America more or less now: The Bookman's Wake, Wonder Boys, The Ghost and the Dead Man's Library, Odd Hours, Death of a Writer, Royal Cat, Uncivil Seasons, The Ice Harvest.

Greece: Zone Defence.

France: Death in the Dordogne

Israel: The Saturday Morning Murders.

Canada: The Edible Woman.

Japan: Kafka on the Shore.

England (early 20th century): In the Kingdom of Mists, The Navigation Log, Tim Frazer gets the Message, The Final Solution, English Music.

England more or less now: Taking the Veil, Herding Cats, Puppet for a Corpse, Underground, The Skeleton in the Closet.

England future: Shadow Web.

Scotland in the 20s: After the Armistice Ball 

Toy City: The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse.

I helped compile a Black Book of Secrets, then solved a murder mystery at a country pile with dandy Julian Kestrel and ex-pickpocket, Dipper in Cut to the Quick. 

To London to meet Sherlock Holmes and help him with a Study in Scarlet, before fighting off a deadly vampire in Blood Sinister and almost getting Scared to Death by the 'Redman'

Skipping forward to WW2, I drove miles across the desert from Tobruk, all the time dreaming  of an Ice Cold beer in Alex. 

I headed over the pond to sultry Alabama and joined the Psychopathological and Sociopathological Investigative Team in tracking down a serial killer (The Hundredth Man).   Now I'm helping Tony Hill oop North find an arsonist and another serial killer in Wire in the Blood.

I spent a while in Boston with the Homicide Department and Jane Rizzoli while they unravelled the coincidence of the Body Double and the intrigue around The Mephisto Club.

Followed the FBI and the Brice family around Dallas and Idaho, watching The Abduction unfold and had Riding Lessons in New Hampshire before being transported back to 19th century London for The Resurrectionist

London and Manchester in my brand new friend, Mike Gayle

East Coast of America in Linwood Barclay, No time for goodbye.

Not much for september!!!

I started out back at High School with my good friends in Gentlemen & Players, they soon whisked me away to A Place Called Here that was somewhere in some woods in Ireland.

I was taken back in time to my childhood in the 70's & 80's for a slice of Toast & a walnut whip.

I then travelled along with my friend Ivan to Dublin in Ireland and other Irish places,  If Only You Could See Me Now.

Then I got on a plane with Sarah and her parents to be a guest at her wedding in Tasmania, to see Tom, *** & Debbie Harry too.

While playing the Memory Game solving a murder somewhere in the UK. 

Back and forth between Britain and America this month... Started in London and then to Russia in The Road Home, then to America in The Perks of Being a Wallflower and back to Britain for a depressing winter in Manchester (Cold Water), and a leaky castle in I Capture the Castle. Into a creepy science lab and bakery for Flowers for Algernon and back to the US with the spoiled, drug-addled brats of Upper East Side Manhattan in Twelve. Stayed in America for Carter Beats The Devil and then came back to Britain before going back across the pond to drive across America in Beatniks and then back to Blighty to finish off with The Inflatable Volunteer, set in the world of "brain parasites and herbal trousers"....

I was based mainly in the UK and USA this month:

Various parts of the USA, including fairy riddled New York (The Good Fairies Of New York), crime busting with Alex Cross in Along Came A Spider and dodging infected vampires in I Am Legend.  Then back to late 19th/early 20th century England in The House At Riverton, before hopping even further back to Victorian London with Sally Lockhart in The Tiger In The Well.  I finished off in 1970's Belfast where Kevin and Sadie first met in The Twelth Day Of July.

Not much this month...

To Eastvale with Inspector Banks in all the colours of darkness.  I then attempted  down cemetery road  set Oxford but I couldn't get into it.

I then journeyed through space and time with cider with roadies and Stuart Maconie