Charlie Cochrane - Mysteries with a dash of slash, romances with just a pinch of spice

I hope you are familiar with all of the Cambridge Fellows Mysteries, of which this is but one. Gather them all up and hold them close. They are true gems!

Read more at Scattered Thoughts and Rogue Words.

Usual arrangement - ebook now, print to follow soon.

More than one person has asked me - but I can't find all the questions to answer them direct - so am posting here that yes, the Endeavour relaunches are featuring print as well. Oh, and look, Lessons in Love is already in paperback!



 

Jonty and Orlando remind me a little (sometimes a lot) of Nick and Nora Charles from Dashiell Hammet's The Thin Man, they possess similar passion for each other, for life, and definitely appreciate a good mystery.

High praise indeed! Read more at Padme's library.

Today's blog tour stop is at MM Good book reviews, where I discuss some of the perils you might not have associated with being published. You know the drill by now - comment at any blog stop to go into the virtual hat for an audio copy of Lessons in Love.

Today I'm at Book Reviews and More by Kathy, talking about how the Cambridge Fellows got me out of my 'writing garret'. Comment at any (or all) of the stops to be in with a chance to win an audio book of Lessons in Love.

Comment at any of the blog tour stops to be in with a chance of winning an audio book. If you comment at more than one, you'll have more than one chance in the virtual hat!

Today I'm at My Fiction Nook, talking about my experience of characters stopping talking to their author.  Also at Scattered Thoughts and Rogue Words, pontificating on my obsession with the years either side of 1900.

Lovely to be interviewed by my old pal Carol Westron, especially as she asks such perceptive questions, like: I love the adventures of Jonty and Orlando in the Cambridge Fellows mystery and realise that one of the things that draws me in is the sense of community you create. When a new character appears in their investigations, do you know from the beginning exactly what they are like and the role they are going to play, or do you discover it as you write?

Read the answers at Promoting Crime blogspot.

I'm delighted to announce that Jonty and Orlando have started to talk to their official biographer (me) once more, having been annoyingly silent these past couple of years. And, in their loquacious manner, they've told me one entirely new story and are bending my ear with another. These will, I hope, be the start of a series of novella length mysteries.

The first Cambridge Fellows Mystery short is 'Lessons in Loving thy Murderous Neighbour' and it's available for pre-order now with an August 14th release date. I'll be blethering on about it between now and then but for the moment here's the blurb:

Jonty Stewart and Orlando Coppersmith like nothing more than being given a mystery to solve. But what happens when you have to defend your greatest enemy on a charge of murder?

 

Much of what Jonty and Orlando did during their time in Room 40 is still covered by the Official Secrets Act, and they won't confess the details to me. However, I've been doing some research of my own, in a book called "Code Breakers".

MI1b was a parallel organisation, who guarded their own secrecy by employing a decoy to meet any unwanted visitors who'd got past their doorman, said decoy giving "the impression of a typical British idiot."

I bet the bods at Room 40 did the same and I bet Jonty was on the rota for the role.