Sherlock Holmes and the Three Winter Terrors is now available.

Physical copies of the hardcover can be purchased in bricks-and-mortar bookstores, and also online at:

• Amazon UK
• Amazon US
• Amazon Canada
• Amazon Australia
• Titan Books

The ebook edition may be purchased via the usual outlets.

Here’s a wonderfully atmospheric short trailer for Three Winter Terrors, put together by the talented folk of the marketing department at Titan Books:

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Sherlock Holmes and the Three Winter Terrors (out October 2021) is a novel told in three parts. Here’s the publisher’s blurb:

1889. The First Terror.
At a boys’ prep school in the Kent marshes, a pupil is found drowned in a pond. Could this be the fulfilment of a witch’s curse from four hundred years earlier?

1890. The Second Terror.
A wealthy man dies of a heart attack at his London townhouse. Was he really frightened to death by ghosts?

1894. The Third Terror.
A body is discovered at a Surrey country manor, hideously ravaged. Is the culprit a cannibal, as the evidence suggests?

These three linked crimes test Sherlock Holmes’s deductive powers, and his scepticism about the supernatural, to the limit.

And here’s that cover image:

It’s another bang-up job from designer Julia Lloyd, which manages to incorporate elements from each of the sections into a seamless whole.

I was asked by the Guardian to comment on the dismissal of the lawsuit brought by the Conan Doyle estate against Netflix and everyone else responsible for the Enola Holmes movie.

I think I show my grasp of complex legal proceedings through my use of the phrase “a complete prick”.

Looking for Christmas gifts for the mystery-lover in your life? Titan Books have a few suggestions, including a couple of familiar-looking Sherlock Holmes novels…

And if you’d like to know a bit more about those books, and their author, FPTV have a video interview for you.

Lots of reviews of The Beast of the Stapletons are appearing, and all positive, but this one is my favourite so far.

I’ve just recorded a podcast with James and Sam at Squaregroot. They are lovely gents and it was an enjoyable and wide-ranging discussion, focusing largely on my Firefly tie-in novels but also on my Sherlock Holmes books and the Cthulhu Casebooks.

You can listen to it here or here.

Cover reveal for Firefly: Life Signs, due out sometime in 2021.

A splendidly shiny design job once again by Natasha MacKenzie.