A Study In Stone – a prequel to the Devonshire Mysteries

Oct 25, 2022 | Updates

A Study in Stone is available from me as a free book when you join my readers’ group, The Awkward Squad.

Alternatively, you can buy it on all the main stores for a nominal price. However, it doesn’t always appear on the series page, especially  on Amazon.  This is because A Study in Stone is now officially Book 0, the prequel to the series. One reader described it as the origin story for Dan and Alan, and I think that’s a reasonable description. This is the beginning of their journey together.

Valley of Lies is Book I, and is a full-length mystery novel complete with a murder, so it’s great place to start reading: Find Valley of Lies online.

The renumbering of the series won’t affect any books you’ve already purchased, and it should give us a suitable point from which to move forward.

In case I’ve managed to completely muddy the waters, I’ve listed The Devonshire Mystery books in order here.

Lower Price for Valley of Lies – a rural murder mystery

Oct 7, 2022 | Updates

October is a great time to sit in the warm with an engaging murder mystery to read, so I’ve reduced the price of the Devonshire Mystery, Valley of Lies.

If you like your crime fiction cosy (or cozy), then you’ll enjoy this murder mystery set in the distinctly rural county of Devon.

This is a small village mystery, but it isn’t all tea and scones.

Whatever books you pick as winter draws on (in this part of the world at any rate), I hope you have a relaxing time, escaping the dark skies and cold nights in the arms of a good book.

Take care and happy reading.

You can find Valley of Lies at:

Buy direct from me

Kobo UK

Kobo US

Kobo Canada

Google Play

Barnes and Noble

Amazon UK

Amazon US

Valley of Lies on Other stores

And don’t forget, you can borrow this book for free if you request it at your local library and they order a copy for you via OverDrive or one of the other library distributors.

NB

Some of the links above are affiliate links – they don’t cost you anything extra, but the store will pay me a small percentage of the price if you use one of my links and subsequently make a purchase. So using one of the above links will be a way of supporting my writing at no cost to you.

Accomplice to Murder – Errors

Aug 15, 2022 | Updates

When Accomplice to Murder launched at the beginning of August, it had been checked by a professional editor and I thought it was as error-free as possible.

Sadly, that turned out not to be the case. I was appalled that a number of typos and errors had slipped through, and these mistakes were only caught by the kind and generous readers who’d requested an advanced reader copy (often called an ARC). Some of these mistakes were minor typos but others were more annoying and that’s completely unacceptable. This is not the way things were meant to go, and I’m very sorry if those errors spoiled anyone’s enjoyment.

I’ll do whatever I can to make this right.

First, I corrected all those errors as quickly as I possibly could, both in the ebook and the paperback edition and on all retailers. If you bought a copy of Accomplice to Murder from 10 August onwards, it should be all right.

If you bought an ebook before then, I would really like the chance to send you a new copy.

If You Bought an ebook From My Store

If you bought it direct from my store, this is easily fixed. When you bought the ebook you provided an email address, and when Bookfunnel delivered your ebook they also created a Bookfunnel library for you. You can login to that library at any time by using the same email address you used to buy the book. All you need to do is provide a password (if you haven’t used the library feature before).

In your Bookfunnel library the ebooks are always the latest version, so the corrected ebooks are there and waiting for you.

Here’s a link to the info you need: bookfunnel.com/my-bookfunnel-library/

If You Bought an ebook From a Retailer

Different retailers work in different ways, so it’s hard to give general advice. It may be possible for you to reload the book from your account on the retailer’s store, and you’ll get the latest version, but I can’t be sure about that, and I can’t force Amazon or other major retailers to send you a new copy.

If you find errors and you’d like a new copy of the ebook, please contact me at mikey [at] michaelcampling.com. It would really help if you could send me a proof of purchase, e.g. you could forward me the email containing your receipt. I will then make sure you get a new copy via Bookfunnel.

If You Bought a Paperback from Amazon

The shipping charges mean that this is much harder for me to put right, but if you find errors in the book I can offer a complimentary ebook as a replacement, so please get in touch at mikey [at] michaelcampling.com.

A Learning Experience

I’m very sorry that this happened on my watch, and you can be assured that I’ll be making changes with the next book. I’ll allow more time, I’ll hire a new editor and I’ll put out a call for beta readers as well as ARC readers. In short, I’ll be making sure that there are more sets of eyes on the book before it’s published.