I’ve had two wonderful reviews on Amazon.com. Makes writing worth it! To respect Amazon’s exclusives, I will not paste them here, but I am sure you will be able to click on the above. And oh yes — if you have never been to Saint Michael’s Mount – Mont Saint Michel – […]
We need to talk about serial killers, and especially this serial killer: Dr Marcel Petiot. I will start by saying that my book about Petiot – DIE IN PARIS – published in February this year (2013) as an e-book, and in April as a paperback, is being discounted from tomorrow, Friday, November 29 until and […]
Each year this time France’s sapeurs pompiers – firefighters and paramedics – affectionately known here as les pompiers, start a money collect. They stand on the pavements/sidewalks and inside and outside shopping malls. I always give them money and they in return give me the coming year’s calendar. This morning at 10.15 outside my […]
My new book – a novel – has just been published as an e-book. In December it will be published as a paperback. You will find it under one of the following depending where you live: UK, USA or France. I think you will find it interesting. It is a sad love […]
When Dr Marcel Petiot (see my book Die in Paris) was guillotined on Saturday, May 25, 1945, he had a scar on his left foot. Always was this man – France’s most prolific serial killer – proud of the scar. He showed it to those he told the story of his Great War experience. […]
One year, two months and four days ago the fatal shooting of the Iraqi-born Brit Saad Al-Hilli, his wife and her mother, as well as that of Frenchman Sylvain Mollier took place in France on a lay-by in a forest near to a hamlet named Chevaline. The Al-Hilli couple’s eldest child, a daughter named […]
My next book, to be published soon, is a novel, a sad love story. The short synopsis on the photo above is probably to tiny for you to read, so here it is: Men leave, says Bella. There is Jean-Louis – French, a successful Paris lawyer and wealthy, elegant and a good-looker, but arrogant, […]
One year, one month ago and three weeks ago the fatal shooting of the Iraqi-born Brit Saad Al-Hilli, his wife and her mother, as well as that of Frenchman Sylvain Mollier took place in France on a lay-by in a forest near to a hamlet named Chevaline. The Al-Hilli couple’s eldest child, a daughter named […]
Paris is a dream-come-true when it comes to exhibitions this autumn (fall)/winter season. I mean, Paris always is, but this season it’s going to be exceptional. Herewith what you will be able to feast your eyes on: Louvre. Ah, the old faithful Louvre! Here There are the permanent exhibitions where you will see […]
What is open on Christmas Day and on New Year’s Day: Museums and Chateaux: NO Note: Those museums and Chateaux which are normally closed on a Tuesday, will therefore this year be closed both on Tuesday, December 24 and Wednesday, December 25, and on Tuesday, December 31 and Wednesday, January 1. Shops: NO Note: Souvenir […]
Ask anyone anywhere who was Dr Marcel Petiot and the answer will be, “No idea”, or perhaps, “Was he a French footballer, or a French actor?” Even in France, Dr Petiot’s homeland, it will be unlikely for someone younger than 50 years of age to know who this man was. Marcel Petiot murdered Jews […]
On November 5, 2009, Tony Musulin, the driver of a Loomis cash transporter, drove off with $15 million. It happened in the city of Lyon. A few days after the robbery, hallelujah, the money was found in a Lyon lock-up basement garage. But nowhere to be found was Musulin, and so too […]
I have signed a contract with Dave Lyons of Raven Crest Books for two novels and a cookbook. (Raven Crest Books published my Die in Paris this year in both e-book and paperback.) The two novels are: Bella … a French Life and For the Love of a Poet. Both are sad love stories. […]
One year and one month ago the fatal shooting of the Iraqi-born Brit Saad Al-Hilli, his wife and her mother, as well as that of Frenchman Sylvain Mollier took place in France on a lay-by in a forest near to a hamlet named Chevaline. The Al-Hilli couple’s eldest child, a daughter named Zainab, […]
One year and three weeks ago the fatal shooting of the Iraqi-born Brit Saad Al-Hilli, his wife and her mother, as well as that of Frenchman Sylvain Mollier took place in France on a lay-by in a forest near to a hamlet named Chevaline. The Al-Hilli couple’s eldest child, a daughter named Zainab, was also […]
