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Kensington, Liverpool February 3 Dot and the WPC, whose name is Wendy Fairclough, are in Amy’s flat, munching their respective ways through slices of lemon drizzle cake accompanied by mugs of coffee. It is 2.30 p.m. and Amy has made them very welcome. She has been curious about Dot anyway having heard snippets about herContinue reading “Chapter Thirty-Four”

The Glass House, St Helens February 2 – later Keith I think everyone was in shock after Jerry made his announcement yesterday afternoon. His statement was short and lacking in virtually every detail that the staff wanted to know; what are the new management’s policies? Are jobs safe? Will the agency be moved out ofContinue reading “Chapter Thirty-Three”

The mind of sadistic serial killer who began by murdering a girl in Brighton is put in the spotlight in Mike Rickett’s new novel Kill Joy. What kind of man is it behind the mask of innocence? Where will he strike again? Who will he kill? How will he be stopped? Kill Joy is availableContinue reading “The mind of a serial killer”

The Star Agency February 2 Keith The more I think about Dot’s plan the more I like it. Lamplight likes it as well and is prepared to provide the detective to do the following, so we have decided to go ahead with it tomorrow. Dot will be Amy’s look-alike; the detective will follow the followerContinue reading “Chapter Thirty-Two”

I am in the process of designing pages for a new book focusing on the 1960s and particularly on the demise of steam on Britain’s railway system. I both loved and hated that decade in equal measure; I loved it because of the colour and the music and I hated it because of the vandalismContinue reading “Steam and the ‘Sixties”

My second novel Kill Joy has just been published. It is the second book in the Naomi Richards series and rather longer than the first book, The Poseidon Files, in which she made her debut. Children’s author Joy Davis mysteriously disappears after her car crashes during a snowstorm on the outskirts of Liverpool in theContinue reading “A new Naomi thriller”

The continuing story of A Walk on the Wilder Side Liverpool February 1 The Women’s Liberation Movement centre at Gambier Terrace, a three-storey Georgian building alongside Liverpool’s majestic Anglican cathedral, is warm and welcoming. Around the walls are Feminist publications – magazines, leaflets, posters and newsletters and Dot looks around she notices, striding towards her,Continue reading “Chapter Thirty-One”

The Star agency January 30 Keith ‘I just don’t see the need for it,’ declares Richard holding up a new 10p coin and scowling. I have decided to do a vox pop on decimalisation in St Helens town centre this morning and I know Richard is implacably opposed to it, whereas Dot is all inContinue reading “Chapter Twenty-Nine”

Thirty St Helens January 31 It was Dot’s idea to do an in-depth feature on working women and their role in society. The thought had come to her after reading about the Women’s Liberation Movement in Oxford when more than 600 women attended their first national conference where they discussed a wide variety of issuesContinue reading “Chapter Thirty”

Chapter One Naomi Liverpool, England – Thursday, October 10 The pub is quite crowded this evening. I have my usual corner by the window and a spartan table in front of me. That is all I need really. And Sid Driscoll has arranged appointments every half hour or so throughout the evening. I call himContinue reading “The Poseidon Files”