Teaming up with pals, Jim LeToile, Pat Canterbury, Faye Snowden, Eileen Remdahl and Claire Booth to kick off Halloween in murderous style. Face in Book is going to be there handling sales. What an all-round treat!

I am lucky enough to be interviewing my good friend, Maddy Day, about her new book MURDER UNCORKED, set in California's wine country. Wine (natch ) and nibbles are laid on by the Davis Wine Bar, down the street a bit. Wine. (Hadn't said it enough). Click here for details

As I promised at an event in Biggar: here is the portrait of my grandad, James "Mac" MacDonald, painted by Terry Frost in Stalag 387, 1942. 

I gave his war history to Sandy, in In Place of Fear, partly to honour the quiet heroism of the "non-compliant" prisoners of war. 

Find--a-Bookclub is a great resource for UK readers. I was thrilled to be asked for my reading suggestions. Here's the link