My latest novel, The Fires of London, came out yesterday from mysteriouspress.com.
This is the first novel I've issued in strictly ebook form and it's a departure in other ways as well. For the first time, I used a real, historical figure for the detective, namely Francis Bacon, the irrepressibly gay, promiscuous, alcoholic painter, a genius and a troublemaker. He was a bit of a stretch. A love of art and a childhood spent downstairs in a country estate gave me some connections to him, but the clincher was that he lived with his old nanny until her death. This was territory I thought I could manage and his old Nan was as much of a character as Bacon himself.
The novel is set during the Blitz in which Bacon really did serve as an ARP warden, his chronic asthma preventing him from military service.
