• The Steam Pump Jump

    If you’re a fan of this series, it can by no means be a surprise there’s these short stories every year to keep us fans happy until the next full length novel arrives. They usually are a lot of fun, as is this one, but I do recommend to read them only when already submerged…

  • Christmas Past

    It has become something of a Christmas tradition, a short story from St Mary’s, usually involving some bad advised time travel, uhm, investigation of historical events in contemporary time, of course. This one was very cute. It features Max and Matthew as they travel to 19th century London to bring a little bit of joy.…

  • The Battersea Barricades

    Having only just finished An Argumentation of Historians (the ninth book in the series), this short story was already published two weeks later. And it was completely not what I expected. It is different from the rest in A) there is no ‘investigating major/minor historical events in contemporary time’ and B) the usual main characters…

  • An Argumentation Of Historians

    Collective noun for historians: an argumentation. One of the consequences of having a Mt. TBR that is just short of keeping me awake at night (both literally and figuratively speaking) is that there are few times I’m really waiting for a book to be published, because I have at least twenty (or a hundred) that…