A tragic and bizarre domestic dispute quickly turns into a much darker fair in this inverted murder mystery reissued by @DeanStPress #CrimeFiction #amreading

A review of Black Edged by Brian Flynn – 221209 Once again Brian Flynn changes the format of his stories, this time in what is the twenty-third in his long running Anthony Bathurst series provides us with an inverted murder mystery, one in which the murderer is revealed early on, and the focus of the story is on the sleuth’s attempt to catch them and unravel the mystery. Bathurst is in full…

Scorpion found in supermarket bananas

A female shop assistant got a bit of a scare this week when she found a venomous scorpion skittering about between the bananas.

Angela Parren spotted the predatory arthropod as she stacked fruit at a supermarket in Cornwall. It’s believed the creature, later identified as a juvenile black edged scorpion, stowed away with the bananas all the way from Costa Rica. The three-inch-long critter can…