Tag archives for Helen Jacey
Hastings Book Festival Goes Larger
TIM BARLOW The 9th annual Hastings Book Festival will take place from 10 to 20 September, featuring 40 events and more than 80 speakers and performers. This year’s festival promises…
Christmas, Crime and Crooning
The festive season is not for sissies. Pressures of gift-giving, invitations or lack of, family dynamics, expenses, cold weather and bugs – even existential crises triggered by a life-size Santa…
Trouble is Her Business
By Helen Murphy and Nick Pelling Raymond Chandler is surely the king of 1940s crime noir fiction, and his novels, such as The Big Sleep, have led to some iconic…
HIP Read
Chipped Pearls: Elvira Slate Investigations Book Two By Helen JaceyShedunnit Productions (December 2019), £ Review by Susan De Muth I took Helen Jacey’s latest murder mystery starring Elvira Slate (the world’s…
Write on in Hastings: Elvira Slate Raises the Roof
HIP’s JULIA MORTIMER met local author Helen Jacey to talk about Jailbird Detective, the novel which introduces her new female sleuth, Elvira Slate Constructed by Helen in the 21st century…