Life's Hard - Wine Helps!: February 2022

Saturday 5 February 2022

Where Has The Time Gone

Hello there, it's me 😀 I'm back!

You will probably forgotten me as I haven't added a post for such a long while. But, quite honestly, I haven't had a single thing to pass on to you, otherwise I would have posted it here immediately.

This virus seems to have taken over our lives. But you must already know that as most of the UK, including my husband and myself, have played it safe by staying home. However, I understand that things are getting better, so maybe, touch wood, we will be able to get out and about again.

But, in the meantime, perhaps we could all pass on how we spent our time trying to cope with the boredom of being indoors for almost two years. Simply add a reply to my post. I understand if you would prefer to put the whole episode behind you and move on. But there might be a few out there who would like to say how they spent their days. Maybe some took up sewing, knitting, reading, writing, or even painting. Whatever it was, I'm sure we would all be delighted to hear from you.

As for me, I started working on the Agnes Lockwood Mysteries Book 5. I had hoped that being stuck indoors I would be able to finish it very quickly. However, I don't seem to have got anywhere. Not sure why, maybe it's just one of the those things. I open the PC, add a few paragraphs then the next day, I change them all. Not a good way of going about writing a novel. But then, maybe it happens to other writers all the time. Who knows?

But, until I can move on, my latest novel is still: A Mystery on Tyneside.

A Mystery on Tyneside

Cheers to you all

Cheers from Tyneside!

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Death on Tyneside

Agnes Lockwood returns to Tyneside after spending a few months abroad. On her first visit, she gained quite the reputation as an amateur sleuth, as she helped the police solve a murder.

Now, she is simply looking forward to meeting again with Alan Johnson, a DCI with the Newcastle police force. Having missed him while she was away, she is hoping their relationship will continue to blossom.

But on her first day back in the city, she gets caught up in another murder. This time, her intrusion into the police investigation pushes Alan Johnson’s patience to the very limit.

Murder on Tyneside

Recently widowed Agnes Lockwood is spending a few days on Tyneside in Northeast England, keen on catching up with her past. But after only a few days at the hotel, an expensive item of jewelry is stolen.

After more jewelry goes missing, Chief Inspector Alan Johnson is assigned to the case. During the investigation, Alan recognizes Agnes as a friend from schooldays and they rekindle their friendship – with Agnes bombarding him with questions about the case.

After having dinner together one evening, they find a body lying on the roadside. Fearing for her safety, Alan warns Agnes to stay away from the case: theft is one thing, but murder is something else.

But being an inquisitive woman, Agnes can’t resist getting involved... too involved.

Only Twelve Days

This heartwarming story is set in a time when computers and mobile phones were still in their infancy.

It's almost Christmas, one of the most wonderful times of the year. Nearly everyone is eagerly looking forward to spending the festive season with their loved ones. But what about those who are facing Christmas alone?

Bill and Sally are two such people. Both are shy and lonely; left behind when the rest of the country was caught up in the changes of the swinging sixties. Will they avoid the holiday season as they usually do, and spend it alone? Or this year, just for a change, will Christmas catch up with them?

Though this story is set during the run up to Christmas, it is a tender love story to be enjoyed at any time of the year.

The Trojan Project

Sarah and her family's peaceful night is disturbed when a strange light rises from behind the Cheviot Hills, and a green mist descends across the valley. Its swirling tendrils, seeming to bear a life of their own as they snake across the land, can only be an omen of something sinister and evil.

Her fears seem confirmed when her husband fails to return home from working on the land, and when he is still missing the following morning, she and her children set out to search for him. A terrifying discovery awaits her in the valley below her home and before long, Sarah and her children find themselves caught up in a desperate search, not only for her husband Pete, but also for the meaning of the green light. Finding herself pursued by the military, she slowly begins to realize her life, and the lives of those she loves, are in mortal danger.

The Trojan Project takes us into a nightmare world where no one is quite what they seem, and trust becomes a word with little meaning. Beware the green light in the sky; you never know what it hides!

Her fears seem confirmed when her husband fails to return home from working on the land, and when he is still missing the following morning, she and her children set out to search for him. A terrifying discovery awaits her in the valley below her home and before long, Sarah and her children find themselves caught up in a desperate search, not only for her husband Pete, but also for the meaning of the green light. Finding herself pursued by the military, she slowly begins to realize her life, and the lives of those she loves, are in mortal danger.

The Trojan Project takes us into a nightmare world where no one is quite what they seem, and trust becomes a word with little meaning. Beware the green light in the sky; you never know what it hides!