If you are waiting for Janie Juke’s next adventure ‘The Invisible Case’, I can confirm that progress is good! The first draft is complete and plans are in place for publication some time in June…watch this space…
Meanwhile, I can share with you that I have tapped into my Italian roots for Janie’s newest mystery. It’s been wonderful recalling childhood memories of long train journeys to Rome, with all the excitement of our picnic breakfast. It makes me smile now to think about how we downed our cornflakes with evaporated milk, as though it was a meal fit for royalty! Fortunately, most of our trips were made as a family, which meant we filled a compartment, so no danger of annoying other passengers with our endless games of I-spy.
On our return journeys we spent hours munching our way through all the fruit that kind aunts and uncles had donated to us for our travels. On one occasion I remember an uncle arriving at Rome station to say goodbye and to hand over a suitcase full of grapes!
My dad took us all on long walks around Rome and, even though my aunt lived quite a way from the station, dad insisted we walk to Roma Termini before we started any adventure.
Appropriate then, that Chapter 1 of ‘The Invisible Case’ starts in exactly the same place…
Isabella Muir 