The CANDACE ROBB Newsletter

Issue 3 September 2000  

CONTENTS

The Candace Robb Interview

Extracts from A Trust Betrayed

SCOTLAND IN THE TIME OF Margaret Kerr

Other Titles by Candace Robb

Maps

Dear Reader,

Autumn is colouring the trees and the mornings on the lake are overcast, the afternoons sunny and warm. My two-year-old garden is already overgrown and a serious round of transplanting is on the schedule. I have a clump of monkshood over 6 feet tall - several visitors have suggested there must be a body beneath. The lace-cap hydrangea that was just a bouquet of leaves when transplanted from my old garden is now as wide as the monkshood is tall, and about four feet high. My elderly, ailing cat has taken to drinking from the lady痴 mantle leaves near my office window - perhaps it truly does soothe a sore throat as the folklore claims.

I値l leave my garden in late October for a book tour through England and Scotland, and research in Edinburgh and York. Look for my schedule elsewhere in this newsletter and on my website. I hope to see some of you! I知 looking forward to seeing all my favourite crime writers at Dead on Deansgate in Manchester.

In a delightful bit of serendipity my tour will take me to Edinburgh on Halloween - I知 always fascinated to see how different cities celebrate the holiday. A few years ago I was in Monterey for the event where it痴 very much an adult festival, rather like Mardi Gras, with crowds of colourfully costumed revellers dancing and singing to street musicians all evening.

I知 excited to have A Trust Betrayed, the first book in my new series, about to appear. Margaret Kerr and her family have been intriguing companions this past year. I知 now hard at work on The Cross-legged Knight, the eighth Owen Archer mystery.