For anyone worried about AI taking over the world, this gives me hope that we’re a way off that….

The hotel buffet has unlocked new threat levels for bad behaviour to use on the kids….

#Poeandapint

So chuffed to be picked as part of Northern Bookshelf 2026! There’s more info via the link below and watch this space for details of the events I’ll be doing! 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 #books #libraries #crimefiction newwritingnorth.com/event/northern…

🎶Happy book birthday to me, happy book birthday to me….🎶 Sing along if you know the words - The Missing Hour out in paperback today just in time for Xmas stocking fillers! Forum - tinyurl.com/38e7rc5f Waterstones - tinyurl.com/faw68yn3 Amazon - tinyurl.com/4tfy4hzb

Santa’s been early! Seven days and counting till the paperback of The Missing Hour hits the shelves - perfect stocking filler, just saying….

My favourite book baby is still slumming it under a quid if any of you fine folk can be persuaded to part with ninety nine of your hard earned pennies! tinyurl.com/4tfy4hzb #bookstoread #CrimeFiction #BookRecommendation #Bargain

Shameless plug - who needs Black Friday when the ebook for The Missing Hour has been already been slashed to 99p? tinyurl.com/4tfy4hzb

Psst, Seven Days is less than a cheeseburger at Maccy D’s - pass it on. amzn.eu/d/cBI6lxr

Toon Toon, Black & White Army! Family pilgrimage to St James’ Park! (We won’t talk about today’s result though….)

A thousand thankyou’s to everyone who grabbed a copy of #TheMissingHour over the weekend. This is how all Monday’s should begin in future please! Still only 99p - just saying… #bookstoread #book #BookRecommendations

Mostly pinching other people’s pics as I only took a few, but yet another fabulous #TheakstonsCrime in the bag, my tenth in total. A weekend packed with conversations, catch ups, copious drinks and more belly laughs than I can count. Only 368 days and counting next year.

All book post is exciting, but some just bring even bigger smiles. Huge thanks to @littlebrown.bsky.social for this weekends entertainment in the form of an early peek at the next offering from @mwcraven.bsky.social #bookpost #crimefiction #TheFinalVow

Massively delayed post @capitalcrime.bsky.social pics - what a weekend! Fab festival, brilliant books and amazing authors. @davidhheadley.bsky.social @lizziecurle.bsky.social and the team deserve a lie down and a medal! Roll on 2026!

Excited to dive into @capitalcrime.bsky.social purchases from @bethlewis.bsky.social and Conn Iggulden - which first? Eenie, meenie, minie, mo….

LOVE this image. No matter how crazy life gets, or how busy your day has been, never skimp on stories. #books #kidseducation #BedtimeStories

🎶Happy German Pub to to me 🎶 Excited to see Seven Days hitting the shelves in Germany as of today courtesy of the lovely folks at Baste Lübbe. #book #bookstoread #crimefiction

Bank holiday weekend price drop on #TheMissingHour on Kobo in the UK - mere 99p for a year’s work! 💥 #BooksWorthReading #BookTwitter #Bargain kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/th…

#TheMissingHour is less than half price in #Australia & #NewZealand this weekend. Thank you to all you lovely folk out there have bought enough already to make my weekend! Sitting pretty at #1 in the fiction charts! 🥳 🇦🇺/ 🇳🇿 - tinyurl.com/33kt9kxh #bookstoread

If there’s a more melancholy canine out there, I’ve yet to meet them. The cause you ask? A whole five seconds of not being the centre of attention.

Competition time! To be in with a chance of being a character in my next book, just like, share & follow. For every 100 shares I’ll give away a signed copy of one of my books (this part is UK only) as consolation prizes. Open till 23:59 May 9th! #readers #giveaway #competition

To further entice you along to any of the events next week, anyone who I sign a book for can enter a draw that I’ll be running until 23:59 Friday 9th May to be a named character in my next book. Get a ticket & get along to be in with a chance 👇👇👇 @trumanbooks.bsky.social @urmstonbooks.bsky.social

Only four days till I’m chatting with @wstonesdurham book club on Saturday - free event and open to anyone. Starts at 10 and I’ll be making myself comfy afterwards from 11-2 with coffee and sharpie in hand to sign anything you put in front of me - books, cheques, confessions…

Today’s post, expertly opened by my glamorous assistant! Roll on April 10th - few tickets still left for the launch event at The Bound (tinyurl.com/2wvp3wbh) #bookstoread Forum - tinyurl.com/38e7rc5f Waterstones - tinyurl.com/faw68yn3 Amazon - tinyurl.com/4tfy4hzb x.com/rutherfordbook…

If I’d known my room number when I checked in, I’d have introduced myself as Rutherford, Robert Rutherford 😜

Heading home from London with some rather fine company for the journey - Death At The White Hart by @chrischibnall.bsky.social out this week. If the opening chapter is anything to go by, I’m in for a heck of a ride!

Two weeks tomorrow till publication - hope to see a load of you northern based folk at @forumbooks.bsky.social in Whitley Bay on April 10th where I’ll be interviewed by the one and only @trevorwoodwrite.bsky.social - tickets available at www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/whi...

Six days and counting till Whose Crime Is It Anyway hits Whitley Bay for #BayTales Last few tickets available if you fancy joining us and help create a bestseller* in under sixty minutes with audience help. app.lineupnow.com/event/whose-... *laughter guaranteed but coherence of plot not so much.