News

Greetings to all my readers, but especially those in the northern latitudes, who are being assailed by a particularly ferocious winter. We seem to be getting off more lightly on the Spanish coast than most other places - but it’s still pretty damn cold.

My major piece of news - and one that I’m absolutely delighted about - is that Kirkus Reviews - “The world’s toughest book critics” - have selected Echoes of the Dead as one of the best twelve mysteries of 2011.

I’ve been getting quite a lot of emails from people who’ve read books from towards the end of one of my series, and have been finding it difficult to lay their hands on earlier books. I sympathise, having experienced the same problem with the books of other authors, but it’s a sad fact of modern publishing that books simply don’t stay in print as long as used to, so what I’ve decided to do is to make all the books, starting with the saga, available as e-books. Watch this space for more details.

My latest book, Blackstone and the Great War, will soon be available in the USA, and the next DCI Paniatowski, Lambs to the Slaughter, should be out later this year.

Hold on, everyone, spring is just around the corner.

Book reviews, synopsis, ISBN and online ordering can be found by category:

• The Mysteries
• The Inspector Blackstone Mysteries
• The Inspector Ruiz Mysteries
• The Historical Sagas
• The Novels

or in the book catalogue.

We welcome any comments, suggestions or criticisms on anything you have read of ours, or on our web site. We can be contacted at:

alan@alanrustage.com
sally@sallyspencer.com