I've been arguing with a relative about the rights and wrongs of DCI Teasdale's response to the first murder in The Silent Woman. 

Should he have arrested her? Why did he delete her confession? Does his over developed sense of protectiveness towards someone he loves so deeply, prevent him from responding as any good policeman should, when dealing with a crime? 

A dilemma for all of us. 

Would we report our loved ones? 

We are still arguing.

I was recently asked by Tamela Lewis how I came to write about DCI Teasdale. Well Tamela, here goes...

At 72, I was left sick and somewhat disabled and quite frankly bored! A young friend called Lauren sat at my new laptop [a present from my brother] and said 'Okay say the opening lines and I'll type it for you!' 

Unable to argue with her about the senselessness of me writing a novel, I came out with a ridiculous sentence, now discarded. Two pages later she left and I read what I had dictated. Six weeks later I was still thumping away; when my hands were too sore, I used a pencil to hit the keys... Now a year later, the first three stories are out as an ebook thanks to a friend who told me about VDU Publishing. 

I am nearly finished the next three stories. I know the story lines are original and quite funny, but the new ones are more serious. Today I have a great sense of achievement, as I don't have a degree, I failed the 11+ and had to sit O'Level English 5 times, all due to the fact that as a left handed person, I was forced to be right handed and the resultant word blindness still affects me. I have to rely on spell check and even that can let me down. But a wonderful lady called Lynda is my fall back over my spelling mistakes. She also checks my punctuation as eyesight problems mean I sometimes can't see the full stop!

I'd just like to say a big thank you to the lovely Roger Phillips.

I recently bumped into him at the Gallery and had a nice chat. 

Then I had a wonderful surprise when I was listening to his show on Tuesday 16 July - he gave my Detective Chief Inspector Teasdale novels the most amazing plug.

The Kindle Edition of the DCI Teasdale trilogy is available to buy from Amazon, priced £3.99.