REPEAT BUSINESS 

             

    Sherlock Holmes: Repeat Business, by New Zealand writer Lyn McConchie, published in 2013, is well worth getting your hands on if you are a Holmes fan. It is about clients who have returned to Sherlock Holmes with fresh problems that need solving. 

     Put out by Borgo Press, each story has the charm of Victorian England coupled with Lyn's extraordinary knowledge of farming, horsemanship, Victorian manners and how the class system back then worked.

 

     In one of the stories we find that even a rat might have an eye for beauty. In another, we learn that a suicide might actually be murder. In yet another, we discover something about Gypsies and Gypsy secrets. 

                  Cats Do it Better Than people

Edited By Theresa Mancuso for Adams Media (2005), Cats Do it Better Than People is a great set of stories for cat lovers like Lyn McConchie. In fact, it was Lyn who talked me into submitting some stories to this collection. There are tongue-in cheek moments such as Go Away! which I wrote about a girl who has a cat follow her home. My favourite by yours truly is Old Salt about a seafaring ginger. Then there's Dopey and Sneezy by Lyn McConchie and Just Good Friends, also by Lyn.