Penny Grubb Author

This is a triple book review. The three books are linked by the fact that I read them all together over this last week. There could be other...

(originally a Facebook post but I thought it was worthy of being a blog) What’s with all this 'discovering' of long forgo...

Buried Deep (crime: set in York and Hull) was the subject of a scary last-minute plot disaster. It was close to finished when a terrible th...

A crop of useful web resources for those who like crime fiction: European Crime Writers   This is a useful website that categorises...

This is the real York: A gruesome history, the   longest medieval town walls in England , a pub for every day of the year. What’s not to li...

An illustrated book of short stories came out last year. It had previously been available only as an ebook. It’s a great collection – I rev...

Show don’t tell? I hate seeing that in writing guides or hearing it in writing courses. It’s shorthand, it’s lazy, it isn’t good advice. Sh...