The first story in my new mystery series is now live in the kindle store at Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk.

It's set in London on bonfire night and features amateur sleuth Emily Castles. It is only available as an ebook and it's a piece of short fiction, approximately 17,000 words long - equivalent to about 70 printed pages in a paperback book.

Obviously there are no customer reviews up there yet. Would you like a free copy so you can review it on Amazon? Please check out my Facebook author page for details of how to get one. If you're not on Facebook, you can just send an email to Tyger Books.

I had planned to read the whole story and make it available in three free podcasts. Unfortunately, when it came to reading the foreign characters' dialogue, I ran into 'Top Gear' style difficulties. My rendition of the Japanese girl's accent was a little too reminiscent of Mickey Rooney's performance in Breakfast at Tiffany's. I couldn't work out how to do the men's voices convincingly at all. I kept thinking, What would Sir Ian McKellen do? And I realised I had no idea. I suppose that four years at drama school and twenty years in show business might give me a hint - but it's too late for all that now.

Never mind. Here's an excerpt from Three Sisters, if you would like to listen to it.