Detective Anne Boleyn

My Anne Boleyn story

Some years ago, I was sitting on a train, minding my own business, when a woman came and sat down on top of me. Imagine my surprise! Even worse was the fact that she wouldn't get up. I poked, I pinched, I yelled and finally she looked at me dismissively and oozed over a few inches.

At around the same time I was thinking about Anne Boleyn, who has always been fascinating to me. So bold. So doomed. So visible, and I began to think, what would happen if the most visible woman in the world were to meet a woman who was so invisible as to be sat upon? And together, they worked to solve a mystery.

That wasn't easy to figure out. Took me years, but eventually I did and I'm thrilled that Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine published it. And featured it on the cover of their May/June 2022 issue.